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Minutes  of  the  Fifty-Third 
Annual  Session 


Lower  Wabash 
Conference 


Of  the 

Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ 
held  at  Robinson,  Illinois 
September  7-11,  1910 


BISHOP  W.  M.  BELL,  D.D.,  Presiding 
L.  H.  COOLEY,  Recording  Secretary 


Published  by  Order  of  the  Conference 


Dayton,  Ohio 
The  Otterbein  Press 


OFFICERS  OF  CONFERENCE  ORGANIZATIONS 


Bishop  W.  M.  Bell. 


Superintendcn  t. 

D.D.,  227  W.  51st  Street, 


Los  Angeles.  <al. 


S en  etory. 

L.  H.  Cooley.  Westfield.  111. 
Statistician. 

H.  H.  Heberly,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Conference  Treasurer. 

•  S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  111. 

Beneficiary  Aid  Association. 

President — H.  W.  Broadstone,  Robinson.  Ill. 
Vice-President — D.  R.  Seneff.  Westfield,  111. 
Secretary — T.  D.  Spyker,  Oakwood,  Ill. 
Treasurer — S.  Mills,  Westfield.  Ill. 


Young  People’s  Christian  Endeavor  Union. 

President — C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Ill. 

Vice-President — Frank  Carpenter,  Robinson,  Ill. 

Recording  Secretary — Miss  Ella  Henderson,  Paris,  Ill. 

Corresponding  Secretary — Mrs.  Ada  Houehen. 

Superintendent  Foreign  Missions — Glenn  Taylor.  Olney,  Ill. 
Superintendent  Christian  Stewardship — L.  E.  Miller. 

Superintendent  Home  Missions — Miss  Grace  Muncie,  Paris.  Ill. 
Superintendent  of  Education — Rev.  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  W.  Fairchild 
Danville,  Ill. 

Superintendent  of  Quiet  Hour — Miss  Elva  Dawson,  Westfield.  111. 
Superintendent  of  Juniors — Mrs.  Geneva  Schear,  Westfield,  Ill. 
Treasurer — E.  H.  Elfresh,  St.  Francisville.  Ill. 


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Westfield  College  Trustees. 

1911 — Ross  Woolford,  Galton.  Ill. 

1912 — W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

1913 — J.  B.  Connett,  Robinson.  Ill. 

Trustees  of  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association. 

President — J.  T.  McCreery,  Paris.  Ill. 

Secretary — J.  B.  Connett.  Robinson.  Ill. 

Treasurer — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  Fairchild  Street,  Danville.  Ill. 
Ex-Officio— Dr.  D.  R.  Seneff,  P.  E..  Westfield,  Ill. 

Conference  Board  of  Trustees. 

Secretary — L.  E.  Miller,  Sumner.  Ill. 

Treasurer — H.  II.  Heberly.  Westfield.  Ill. 

President — ,T.  C.  Fowler,  Lawrenceville,  111. 

Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship. 

L.  E.  Miller,  Sumner,  Ill. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake.  308  Fairchild  Street,  Danville.  Ill. 

E.  Bigelow,  Westfield.  Ill. 

Committee  on  Horne  Missions. 

J.  B.  Connett.  Robinson.  Ill. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake.  Danville.  III. 

C.  C.  Rose,  Olney.  111. 


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Woman's  Branch  Missionary  Society. 

President — Mrs.  Rosa  Connett,  'Robinson,  HI. 
Secretary — Mrs.  N.  E.  Royer. 

Treasurer — Mrs.  J.  C.  Fowler. 

Sabbath  School  Board  of  Control. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield.  III. 

G.  B.  Norviel.  Robinson,  III. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Foreign  Missions. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

II.  IT.  Ileberly,  Westfield,  III. 

Court  of  Appeals. 

I).  R.  Seneff  and  S.  Mills,  Westfield,  III. 

Correspondent  of  U.  B.  Historical  Society. 

L.  H.  Cooley,  Westfield,  III. 

Correspondent  of  Bonebrake  Seminary. 

II.  II.  Heberly,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Board  Directors  General  Church  Erection. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Rossville.  Ill. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall.  Ill. 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  Danville.  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  Robinson.  HI. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES  FOR  1911 


Church  Erection — C.  A.  Dwyer. 
Publication  Interests — J.  S.  Mclver. 
Education — B.  B.  Phelps. 

Sabbath  Schools—  W.  Beasly. 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U. — Cadie  D.  Bowman. 
Resolutions — E.  E.  Bundy. 

The  Home — J.  B.  Connett. 
Temperance — T.  D.  Spyker. 

Bible  Cause — C.  A.  Hall. 


COURSE  Op"  READING. 

First  Year  s  Committee— H.  H.  Heberly.  E.  Boley,  D.  C.  Ade. 

(  lass;  R.  L.  Weber,  G.  W.  Patrick,  Otto  Cummins,  I.  J.  Knapp,  Dais 
Bowman.  W.  O.  Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  Albert. 

Second  Year’s  Committee— G.  W.  Bonebrake,  J.  C.  Fowler,  R.  Griffin 
Class:  Elizabeth  Thompson,  W.  Beasly. 

I  bird  \  ear's  Committee — T.  D.  Spyker,  W.  L.  Duncan,  N.  E.  Royer. 

(  lass:  I.  s.  Mclver,  H.  S.  Reese,  O.  .1.  Bogard,  M.  L.  Watson.  II.  A 
Bogard,  T.  H.  Decker,  F.  II.  King. 

Fourth  Year’s  Committee— J.  B.  Norviel,  W.  R.  Muncie,  W.  C.  Ilarbert. 

(  lass  :  I-,.  E.  Buckner,  ,1.  TJm  Pellum. 


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NECROLOGY 

Of  Members  from  the  Organization  of  the  Conference 


Cherished  Names.  Died. 

A.  Dunbar  . . 1860 

II.  S.  Stump  . 1860 

W.  H.  Brown  . 1861 

S.  Coblentz  . 1862 

T.  B.  Thrapp  . 1863 

A.  Sweasy  . 1864 

S.  Greason . 1867 

H.  Clark . 1871 

J.  Simpson,  Sr . 1872 

J.  H.  Bed  well  . 1873 

D.  Stoltz  . 1874 

A.  W.  Hedge . 1874 

S.  Hayworth  . 1874 

O.  P.  Hurst . 1874 

J.  Severe  . 1875 

S.  Stark . 1875 

J.  Cottman . 1875 

B.  Lloyd . 1875 

,T.  Simpson,  Jr . 1876 

D.  Ross  . 1879 

P.  Story . 1879 

M.  T.  Tobey  . 1880 

B.  Cole . 1880 

J.  P.  Shue  . 1880 

S.  G.  Brock . 1881 

W.  G.  Hartman . 1881 

H.  Severn . 1882 

W.  McGinnis . 1883 

S.  Ross  . . . 1883 

J.  Tobey . 1884 

A.  Collins  . 1884 

J.  Burtner . 1884 


C  It  eris  It  ed  N a  m  es.  D  i ed . 

P.  Brock . 1884 

S.  Allenbaugh  . 1884 

S.  C.  Stewart  . 1885 

M.  Hail  . . 1885 

S.  B.  Allen . 1886 

J.  L.  Cardwell  . 1889 

L.  S.  Chittenden  . 1892 

A.  Helton . 1892 

J.  Grim  . 1892 

Daniel  Mater . 1893 

A.  Briley  . 1893 

I.  W.  Williams  . 1893 

J.  R.  Helton  . 1896 

S.  Schlosser . 1896 

E.  Shuey  . 1897 

J.  Sheets  . 1898 

W.  Kauble  . 1898 

J.  G.  Shuey . 1901 

J.  J.  Page' . 1901 

S.  Keagy . 1902 

D.  Bussard  . 1902 

A.  Rider . 1904 

S.  Smoot . 1904 

W.  C.  Smith . 1905 

R.  Clark . 1906 

J.  Dickens  . 1906 

W.  E.  Anderson . 1908 

S.  Bussard . 1908 

J.  H.  Penner  . 1908 

J.  Peachy . 1908 

W.  Quigley . 1908 

J.  Cougill . 1910 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS 


Active  Itinerants. 

Ade,  D.  C . 

Albert,  W.  O . 

Albert,  Mrs.  On  a . 

Ball,  G.  W . 

Boley,  E . 

Broadstone.  H.  W . 

Byard.  Z.  H . 

Bogard,  O.  J . 

Bundy,  E.  E . 

Buckner,  E.  L . 

Bogard,  IT.  A . 

Bon eb rake.  G.  W . 


Joined.  Ordained. 
.1909 . 1897.  . 


.  .  .  .  1 898 . 1 905 .  .  . 

_ 1897 . .1900.  .  . 

_ 1874 . 1888.  .  . 

_ 1888 . 1891 .  .  . 

_ 1906 . 

_ 1908 . 

_ 1908 . 

. .  . .1906 . 

.  .  .  .  1900 . 1902 .  .  . 


Post-Office. 

.White  Heath,  Ill. 

.  Dayton.  Ohio. 
.Dayton,  Ohio. 

.Birds,  Ill. 

. Olney,  Ill. 

.Robinson,  Ill. 
.Ashmore,  Ill. 

.St.  Fraucisville,  III. 

.  Locust  Grove.  Ill. 
.Delhi,  Ill. 

.West  Salem,  Ill. 

.308  W.  Fairchild  St., 
Danville.  Ill. 


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Connett,  J.  B . 

Cooley,  L.  II . 

Dwyer,  C.  A . 

Daugherty,  B.  F . 

Decker,  T.  H . 

Duncan,  W.  L . 

Fowler,  J.  F . 

Fowler,  J.  C . 

f  t  1 1  fli  n ,  R  •  . . . 

Hall,  C.  A . 

Harbert,  W.  C . 

Heberly,  H.  H . 

Hudson,  H.  D . 

King,  F.  H . 

Knapp.  I.  J. ••••••••••••• 

Lehwald.  H.  A . 

Myers,  C.  O . 

McCreery,  J.  T . 

Miller.  L.  E . 

Muncie,  W.  R . 

Mclver,  I.S . 

Norviel,  J.  B . 

^ ash,  Mrs.  R.  J. ••••••••• 

Olmsted,  A.  J . 

Pierson,  E.  M . 

Padrick,  G.  W . 

Perkins,  W.  L . 

Perkins,  C.  W . 

Phelps,  B.  B . 

Pellum.  G.  L . 

Reese,  H.  S . 

Reid,  G.  W . 

Royer.  N.  E . 

Scneff,  D.  R . 

Spyker,  T.  D . 

Stoltz.  S.  O . 

Thompson,  Miss  Elizabeth. 
Watson,  U.  L . 


.1886 . 1889 . Robinson.  Ill. 

.1881 . 1891 . Westfield.  Ill. 

.1910 . Danville,  Ill. 

.1906 . Westfield,  Ill. 

.1907 . Ashmore,  Ill. 

.1894 . 1900 . Olney,  Ill. 

.1895 . 1901 . Paris,  Ill. 

.1887 . 1891 . Lawrenceville,  Ill. 

.1893 . 1896 . Oblong,  Ill. 

.  1 903 . 1907 . Chesterville,  Ill. 

.1888 . 1891 . Olney,  Ill. 

.1907 . Westfield.  Ill. 

.1898 . 1901 . Potomac,  Ill. 

.1907 . Toledo,  Ill. 

.1909 . 

.1910 . 

.1904 . 1907 . Penfield,  Ill. 

.1891  . 1898 . Paris,  Ill. 

.1900 . 1903 . Sumner,  Ill. 

.1877 . 1880 . Fisher,  Ill. 

.1902 . Flora,  Ill. 

.1887 . 1890 . Robinson,  Ill. 

.1905 . 1910 . Vienna,  Ill. 

.1910 . Johnstown,  Ill. 

.1892 . 1896 . Marshall,  Ill. 

.1902 . Vergennes,  Ill. 

.1902 . 1906 . Dayton,  Ohio. 

.1909 . Vergennes,  Ill. 

.1909 . 1895 . Rossville,  Ill. 

.1903 . Martinsville,  Ill. 

.1904 . Casey,  Ill. 

.1890 . 1905 . Logootee,  Ill. 

.1893 . 1903 . Redmon,  Ill. 

.1885 . 1888 . Westfield,  Ill. 

.1878 . 1884 . Oakwood,  Ill. 

.1897 . 1900 . St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

.1907 . Dayton,  Ohio. 

.1905 . Broadland,  Ill. 


Superannuated  Itinerants. 

Mills,  S . 

Moore,  J.  F . 

Nye,  J.  W . 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  C.  A . 

Walters,  T . 

Watson.  J.  P . 

Wood,  B.  G . 


Supernumerary  Itinerants. 

Bourne,  H.  D . 

Boster,  G.  W . 

Buckner,  F.  M . „ . .  . 

Coffman,  J . 

Oopn  H 

Elliott,  Mrs.'  Viola'  !  !  !  1  !  !  ! 

Elliott,  W.  H . 

Fink,  F.  M . 

Griffith,  T.  P . 

Haycock.  W.  O . 

Holsapple,  J.  IV . 

Hall,  D.  T . 

Johns,  E.  R . 

Keller,  G.  W . 

McMahel,  G.  W . 

McConaughy.  H.  C . 

Nickerson.  W.  H . 

Shuey,  W.  R . 


Joined. 

Ordained. 

Post-Office. 

,  .1859. . 

_ 1861. . . 

...Westfield,  Ill. 

, .1861. . 

-  1859. . . 

.  .  .  Holton.  Kan. 

.1891. . 

_ 1894. . . 

.  .  .Toledo,  Ill. 

.1881 . . 

_ 1891. . . 

...Mt.  Vernon.  Ill. 

.1880. . 

- 1883. . . 

.  .  .Bluford,  Ill. 

Joined. 

Ordained. 

Post-Office. 

,  .  1893. . 

_ 1896. . . 

.  .  .Wynoose,  Ill. 

. 1894 .  . 

_ 1899. . . 

...Snowflake,  Ill. 

, .1870. . 

_ 1871. . . 

...Bluford.  Ill. 

, .1900. . 

_ 1874 . . . 

.  .  .Olney,  Ill. 

.1906. . 

.  .  .  Lewis,  Ind. 

.1907. . 

_ 1892. . . 

.  .  .Lewis,  Ind. 

. .1885. . 

. 1 906 . . 

_ 1898. . . 

...R.  R.,  Rose  Hill 
...Flora  111. 

_ 1901. . . 

.  .  .  St.  Francisville. 

,  .1889. . 

_ 1S94. . . 

.  .  .Toledo,  Ill. 

. .1909. . 

.  .  .  Rose  Hill.  Ill. 

.1886.. 

_ 1890. .  . 

. .1890. . 

. .1906. . 

, .1909. . 

.  .  .  Potomac.  Ill. 

.  .1908. . 

_ 1909. . . 

...Westfield.  Ill. 

. .1862. . 

_ 1869... 

...Westfield,  Ill. 

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Smith,  J.  A . 1873 . 1878 . Bluford,  Ill. 

Stevenson,  I).  K . 1887 . 1893 . Toledo,  Ill. 

Tipsword,  II.  M . 1895 . 1898 . Toledo,  Ill. 

Tohill,  J . 1879 . 1889 . Oblong,  III. 


Local  Preachers.  Joined. 

Beasly,  W . . . 1907 . 

Byrd,  L . 1909. 

Blackburn,  B . 1909 . 

Bowman.  Miss  1  >aisy . 1 909 . 

Cummins,  Otto  . . 1907. 

Easton,  J.  H . 1910. 

Gladwell.  C.  N . 1910. 

Meek,  D.  F . 1910. 

Peters,  B.  C . 1905. 

Webber,  It.  L . 1910. 


Post-Office. 
Vermilion,  Ill. 
Iiossville,  Ill. 
Attica,  Ind. 
Danville,  Ill. 
Rose  Hill,  Ill. 
Clarksburg,  Ill. 
Parkersburg,  Ill. 

West  Union,  Ill. 
Calhoun,  Ill. 


LAY  DELEGATES 


DANVILLE  DISTRICT. 

Field.  Delegate. 

Ashmore . William  Miner 

Broadlands . Mrs.  Sadie  Frame 

Chesterville . Mrs.  P.  M.  Painter 

Danville  Circuit . R.  C.  Langley 

Danville  Station . ...W.  T.  Dixon 

Findlay . Walter  Stumpp 

Fisher . E.  R.  Wade 

Galton . Ross  Woolford 

Hillery . C.  Fourez 

Locust  Grove . G.  H.  Gordon 

Penfiekl . \ . Ross  Donaldson 

Potomac . W.  C.  Leonard 

Perrysville  Ave . Mrs.  S.  J.  White 

Rossville .  George  Stumpp 

Royal . Mrs.  R.  C.  McKinney 

Redmon . J.  R.  Blair 

White  Heath . C.  M.  Curl 


OLNEY  DISTRICT. 


Field. 

Bluford . 

Birds  . 

Delhi . 

Edgewood  . 

Flora  Circuit.  . . 
Flora  Station  .  .  . 
New  Hebron 
Lawrenceville  .  . 
Mt.  Vernon . 


Delegate. 

. J.  W.  Surcy 

. Frank  Fitch 

.  .  F.  M.  Edwards 

. Nelvin  Sapp 

. Jesse  Snell 

...A.  M.  Wearing 
.  .  .  .  W.  B.  Adams 
.  .  .  Elmer  Brunson 
_ W.  M.  White 


Olnev  Circuit . 

Mattie  Huffington 

Olnev  Station . 

Oblong  . 

Parkersburg  . 

Patton . 

Robinson  . 

Sumner . 

...I.  K.  Vannetta 

St.  Francisville.  .  .  . 

Vienna . 

.Mrs.  V.  E.  Hood 

Vergennes . 

...W.  M.  Quigley 

WESTFIELD 

DISTRICT. 

Field. 

Delegate. 

A vena . 

Annapolis . 

.  .  .  .  C.  C.  Hodges 

Beecher  City . 

.  .  Sallie  Richards 

Casey  Circuit . 

. E.  Ormsbv 

Casey  Station . 

Clarksburg . 

. T.  C.  Eiler 

Greenup  . 

Island  Grove  . 

. Chas.  Smith 

Johnstown  . 

.Gertrude  Olmsted 

Loogootee . 

. W.  H.  Gray 

Martinsville . 

Marshall . 

.  .  .Mary  E.  Good 

Paris . 

.  W.  M.  McComas 

Toledo  . 

.  . Sue  Richardson 

Vermilion . 

. M.  J.  Glick 

Westfield  Station.. 

. L.  A.  Rider 

Westfield  Circuit .  .  . 

.  .  .  .  D.  W.  Comer 

Yale . 

.  .  .  .  Henrv  Gifford 

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CONFERENCE  RECORD  FROM  ORGANIZATION 


Time.  Place.  Bishop.  {Secretaries. 

Mar.  17-21,  1859 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards.  .W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.  22-25,  1860 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ..  .Edwards .  .W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.  21-24,  1861 . Vermillion,  Ill . Edwards.  .W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.  13-16,  1862 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards.. W.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills 

Mar.  26-29,  1863 . Centerpoint.  Ind. ..  .Edwards .  .W.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills 

Mar.  31- April  4,  1864 ..  Vermillion,  Ill . Edwards.. S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  8-11.  1864.  ....  .New  Hebron,  Ill.. .  .Edwards.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  7 — ,  1865 . Parkersburg.  Ill. ..  .Weaver ..  .S.  Mills,  G.  W.  Keller. 

Aug.  22-25,  1866 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver.  .  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  27-31,  1867 . 1'rairieton,  Ind . Weaver.  .  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  19-23,  1868 . Vermillion,  Ill . Weaver..  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  19-23,  1869 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  14-19,  1870 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Edwards .  .J.  H.  Ross,  W.  C.  Smith. 

Sept.  6-11,  1871 . Terre  Haute,  Ind. .  .Edwards .  .J.  11.  Ross,  S.  Mills. 

Aug.  21-26,  1872 . New  Goshen,  Ind. .  .Edwards .  .S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Aug.  4-9.  1873 . Westfield,  Ill . Dickson..  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Oct.  8-12,  1874 . ITairieton.  Ind . Dickson..  S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Sept.  29  Oct.  2,  1875 ..  Vermillion.  Ill . Dickson..  S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Oct.  4-8,  1876 . Middlebury,  Ind. ..  .Dickson .  .  S.  Mills,  H.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  26-30,  1877 . Centerpoint.  Ind. ..  .Weaver .. -S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Oct.  9-13,  1878 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver.  .  .8.  Mills,  H.  L.  Brengle. 

Oct.  15-19,  1879 . Vermillion.  Ill . Weaver.  . -S.  Mills. 

Oct.  6-10,  1880 . Centerpoint,  Ind. ..  .Weaver .. -S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1881..  New  Goshen,  Ind. .  .Kephart ..  s.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  6-10,  1882 . Parkersburg,  Ill. ..  .Kephart ..  s.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  19-23,  1883 . Westfield.  Ill .  Kephart ..  s.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  17-21,  1884 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Kephart ..  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  30-Oct.  4,  1885 .  ..Redmon,  Ill . Castle...  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  29-Oct.  3,  1886 ...  Centerpoint,  Ind. ...  Kephart ..  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1887...  New  Ilebron.  Ill. ...  Weaver .. -8.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  26-30,  1888 . Westfield.  Ill . Dickson.,  s.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  25-29,  1889 . Olav  Citv.  Ind . Kephart.. s.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

Sept.  24-30,  1890 . Paris.  Ill .  Castle - S.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

Aug.  26-30,  1891 . Westfield.  Ill . Weaver.  . -S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  31-Sept.  4.  1892.. Clay  City.  Ind .  Dickson.,  s.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  30-Sept.  4,  1893.. Terre  Haute.  Ind...Hott S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1894 .  .Westfield,  Ill . Castle...  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  28-Sept.  1.  1895 .  .Oblong.  Ill .  Kephart.. L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  9-13,  1896 . Paris.  Ill . Mills . L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  22-26,  1897 . Clay  City,  Ind . Weaver... l.  h.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  21-25,  1898 . Terre  Haute.  Ind. ..  Castle ...  L.  H.  Coolev,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  30-Sept.  3.  1899 ..  Westfield.  Ill . Castle - L.  H.  Coolev.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  5-9.  1900 . Olney.  Ill . Weaver.,  l.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  4-8.  1901 . Casev.  Ill . Hott . L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  27-31,  1902 . Oblong.  Ill .  Mathews.  L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  26-30,  1903 . Terre  Haute.  Ind..  Mathews.  L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  17-21.  1904 . Mt.  Vernon,  Ill....  Mathews.  L.  H.  Cooley,  J.  A.  Hawkins. 

Sept.  6-11,  1905 . Olney,  Ill .  Mathews.  Edw.  Boley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1906 .. Westfield.  Ill .  Mathews.  A.  D.  Markley.  W.  L.  Perkins 

Aug.  21-25,  1907 . Terre  Haute.  Ind..  Mathews.  A.  D.  Markley.  L.  H.  Cooley. 

Aug.  19-23,  1908 . Paris,  Ill .  Mathews.  A.  D.  Markley.  L.  IT.  Cooley. 

Aug.  18-22.  1909 . Casev.  Til... . Mathews.  A.  D.  Markley.  L.  IT.  Cooley. 

Sept.  7-11,  1910 . Robinson.  Til .  Bell . L.  n.  Cooley.  W.  L.  Perkins. 


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Danville  Station . G.  W.  Bonebrake. . .  . 

Danville  Circuit . C.  A.  Dwyer . 

Broadlands  Circuit . M.  L.  Watson . 

White  Heath  Circuit . !D.  C.  Ade . 

Potomac  Circuit . H.  C.  McConaughv ... 

Locust  Grove . . Elmer  E.  Bundy.  .  .  . 

Galton . :N.  E.  Royer . 

Findlay . G.  W.  Padrick . 

Rossville . B.  B.  Phelps . 

Royal . . D.  F.  Meek . 

Hillary  Circuit . J.  W.  McMachan..  .  . 

Redmon . S.  D.  Hudson . 

Penfield . |W.  Beasley . 

Chesterville . |C.  A.  Hall . 

Fisher . W.  R.  Muncie . 

Perrysville . j  Sarah  D.  Bowman. .  . 

Ashmore . Walter  Hall . 


Total 


Westfield  District — J.  B.  Connett,  Presiding  Elder 


Casey  Circuit. 
Martinsville  Circuit . 
Westfield  Station .... 
Johnstown  Circuit. . . 

Loogootee . 

Paris . 

Marshall . 

Clarksburg . 

Westfield  Circuit .... 


C.  W.  Perkins 
H.  S.  Reese. . .  . 
H.  H.  Heberly . 
A.  J.  Olm stead 
C.  O.  Myers .  .  . 
J.  C.  Fowler.  .  . 

R.  Griffin . 

W.  O.  Albert .  . 
Z.  H.  Byard .  . 

Greenup  Circuit . J.  E.  Spencer.  . 

Annapolis  Circuit . B.  C.  Peters.  . 

Casey  Station . IW.  L.  Perkins. 

Toledo  Mission . F.  H.  King.  .  .  . 

Vermillion . J.  H.  Easton. . 

Yale  Circuit . T.  D.  Spyker.  . 

A  vena . " . J.  L.  Pellum.  . 

Island  Grove . Arthur  Beldon  . 

Beecher  City . T.  H.  Decker.  . 


Total 


Olnev  District 
Sumner  Circuit . 

Patton  Circuit . 

Oblong  Station . 

Vergennes . 

Bluford  . 

Robinson . 

Mt.  Vernon . 

Edgewood  Circuit . 

Parkersburg . 

St.  Francisville . 

Olney  Station . 

Olney  Circuit . 

New  Hebron . 

Birds  Circuit . 

Flora  Circuit . 

Delhi . 

Flora  Mission . 

Vienna  Circuit . 


J.  T.  McCreery,  Presiding  Elder 

L.  E.  Miller . 

J.  F.  Fowler . 

G.  L.  Stine . 

R.  J.  Nash . 

O.  J.  Bogard . 

J.  B.  Norvell . 

Mary  Mitchell .  .  . 
Eliza  Thompson. . 

I.  S.  Mclver . 

E.  M.  Pierson. . .  . 
W.  L.  Duncan. .  .  . 

H.  A.  Bogard .... 
H.  W.  Broadstone 

G.  W.  Ball . . 

W.  C.  Harbert .  .  . 

H.  A.  Lehwald .  .  . 
C.  N.  Glad  well.  .  . 
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231 

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255 

187 

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215 

175 

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30 

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365 

165 

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175 

135 

121 

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Loogootee . 

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110 

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210 

130 

15 

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150 

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131 

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200 

140 

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Casey  Station . 

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35 

296 

150 

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100 

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20 

52 

282 

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30 

245 

120 

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14 

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280 

170 

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195 

110 

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180 

300 

11 

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24 

25 

465 

32 

35 

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370 

35 

17 

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25 

232 

124 

3 

100 

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40 

205 

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300 

4 

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20 

100 

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47 

23 

285 

148 

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290 

200 

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410 

200 

39 

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236 

180 

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67 

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FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Value  of  Parson- 1 

age  Rent. 

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Total  Received 
by  Pastor. 

— 

Presiding 

Elder’s  Salary. 

Collected  for 

Local  Current 

Expenses. 

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For  Church  and 

Parsonage 

Buildings. 

i 

Collected  for 

Local  S.  S. 

Purposes. 

Danville  District 

Danville  Station . 

144  00 

1,004  00 

52  00 

300  00 

310  00 

196  00 

Danville  Circuit . 

102  00 

885  00 

79  00 

225  00 

70  00 

Broadlands  Circuit . 

60  00 

748  00 

78  00 

383  00 

38  00 

80  00 

White  Heath  Circuit . 

120  00 

638  00 

48  00 

64  19 

325  00 

102  60 

Potomac  Circuit . 

84  00 

794  00 

73  00 

670  00 

110  00 

Locust  Grove . 

100  00 

802  00 

52  00 

120  07 

189  24 

84  43 

Galton . 

100  00 

735  00 

62  00 

98  50 

600  00 

73  31 

Findlay . 

60  00 

422  00 

58  00 

35  00 

30  00 

Rossville . 

120  00 

889  37 

71  20 

290  00 

112  00 

Royal . 

40  00 

457  85 

40  05 

. 

Hillarv  Circuit . 

100  00 

25  00 

Redmon . 

100  00 

739  02 

65  00 

205  00 

1,355  00 

120  00 

Penfield . 

611  58 

69  00 

82  75 

110  50 

147  15 

Chesterville . 

100  00 

835  00 

33  25 

117  00 

105  19 

Fisher . - . 

66  00 

616  00 

56  00 

75  00 

140  00 

60  00 

Perrysville . 

97  55 

45  00 

225  26 

Ashmore . 

304  13 

48  07 

87  60 

35  82 

52  52 

1,196  00 

10,678  50 

909  57 

2,798  11 

3,328  82 

1,343  20 

Westfield  District 

Casey  Circuit . 

100  00 

630  00 

70  00 

86  00 

885  00 

68  00 

Martinsville  Circuit . 

623  00 

72  00 

48  00 

305  00 

75  00 

Westfield  Station . 

120  00 

950  00 

82  00 

250  00 

80  00 

165  79 

Tohnstown  Circuit . 

194  25 

37  10 

Loogootee . 

100  00 

426  10 

62  00 

-  53  14 

60  00 

Paris . 

150  00 

835  00 

55  00 

185  00 

155  00 

150  00 

Marshall . 

695  00 

38  00 

129  75 

323  00 

65  00 

Clarksburg . 

75  00 

480  75 

47  00 

25  80 

630  00 

38  00 

Westfield  Circuit . 

409  35 

48  02 

74  50 

70  00 

Greenup  Circuit . 

156  00 

25  00 

20  50 

26  00 

Annapolis  Circuit . 

425  00 

60  00 

Casev  Station . 

180  00 

1,041  85 

62  00 

151  84 

50  50 

281  82 

Toledo  Mission . 

100  00 

705  00 

55  00 

115  00 

582  29 

108  00 

Vermilion . 

100  00 

725  00 

50  00 

100  00 

150  00 

100  00 

Yale  Circuit . 

60  00 

620  00 

71  00 

100  00 

200  00 

77  00 

A vena . 

50  00 

425  19 

47  92 

60  00 

12  50 

30  00 

Island  Grove . 

485  00 

90  00 

5  00 

Beecher  City . 

60  00 

375  00 

34  00 

•  60  00 

131  00 

54  00 

1,095  00 

10,201  49 

916  04 

1,549  53 

3,504  29 

1,373  61 

Olney  District 

Sumner  Circuit . 

150  00 

940  00 

75  00 

190  00 

115  00 

220  00 

Patton  Circuit . 

24  00 

674  00 

61  00 

350  00 

60  00 

Oblong  Station . 

150  00 

1,000  15 

39  00 

105  79 

575  00 

107  70 

Vergennes . 

75  00 

494  50 

57  60 

150  00 

125  00 

Bluford  . 

75  00 

627  00 

64  00 

106  00 

450  00 

100  00 

Robinson . 

150  00 

1,010  00 

49  00 

640  00 

160  00 

Mt.  Vernon . 

373  79 

37  45 

61  85 

.  .  .  : . 

39  95 

Edgewood  Circuit . 

333  25 

46  04 

20  00 

5  00 

41  75 

Parkersburg . 

75  00 

700  75 

72  16 

178  00 

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104  00 

St.  Francisville . 

150  00 

1,042  95 

67  00 

2  90 

4,743  10 

2082  20 

Olney  Station . 

100  00 

1,000  00 

61  00 

287  41 

153  93 

Olnev  Circuit . 

75  00 

675  00 

68  00 

120  00 

3  10 

68  00 

New  Hebron . 

700  00 

67  00 

134  00 

207  92 

175  00 

Birds  Circuit . 

100  00 

575  00 

53  00 

85  00 

517  18 

125  00 

Flora  Circuit . 

478  15 

66  75 

60  00 

155  00 

100  00 

Delhi . 

67  50 

Flora  Mission . 

728  00 

37  00 

152  00 

94  40 

Vienna  Circuit . 

414  00 

35  00 

112  00 

125  00 

24  00 

Total . 

1,124  00 

11,834  04 

956  00 

2,754  95 

7.056  30 

1,820  93 

Summary  of  other  Districts. 

2,291  00 

20,879  99 

1,825  61 

4,347  64 

6,833  11 

2,716  81 

Grand  total . 

3,415  00 

32,714  03 

2,781  61 

7,102  591 

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Danville  Circuit . ~ . 

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Broadlands  Circuit . 

3  00 

6  88 

White  Heath  Circuit . 

5  40 

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4  00 

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Locust  Grove . 

4  00 

5  81 

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3  00 

12  18 

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4  00 

5  80 

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2  00 

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2  00 

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3  00 

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Ashmore . 

2  00 

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Westfield  District . 

Casev  Circuit . 

2  10 

Martinsville . 

2  00 

5  56 

Westfield  Station . 

6  00 

Johnstown  Circuit . 

Loogootee . 

4  00 

1  00 

Paris . 

4  00 

3  35 

Marshall . 

3  00 

Clarksburg . 

2  50 

Westfield  Circuit . 

1  00 

Greenup  Circuit . 

Annapolis  Circuit . 

6  00 

Casey  Station . 

5  00 

Toledo  Mission . 

4  00 

Vermilion . 

4  00 

5  00 

Yale  Circuit . 

5  00 

Avena . 

2  50 

Island  Grove  . 

3  00 

Beecher  Citv . 

2  00 

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Olney  District. 

Sumner  Circuit . 

6  00 

7  00 

Patton  Circuit . 

5  00 

Oblong  Station . 

3  00 

2  50 

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5  00 

1  30 

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Bluford  . 

5  00 

Robinson 

3  00 

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Edgewood  Circuit . . 

3  00 

Parkersburg  Circuit . 

6  00 

4  00 

22  75 

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5  00 

9  64 

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4  00 

Olney  Circuit . 

4  00 

3  90 

New  Hebron . 

6  00 

7  15 

Birds  Circuit . 

4  00 

2  50 

Flora  Circuit 

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Flora  Mission . 

2  00 

3  00 

Vienna 

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to  Colleges, 
Seminary,  etc.! 

Westfield 

College 

Assessment. 

Westfield 

College 

Trustees’  Exp. 

Annual  Confer¬ 
ence  Expen.se 
Fund. 

1 

General  Con¬ 
ference  Ex¬ 
penses. 

Bible  Cause. 

For  Lawrence- 
ville  and 
Danville. 

i - 

Total  for  all 

Purposes. 

No.  Church 
Houses. 

No.  Parsonage- 

Built  this  Year, 

Value  of  Church 

Plouse  and 

Grounds. 

21  25 
23  68 

6  75 

2  00 
35  00 
90  00 
8  00 

4  00 

1  00 

1 

15  00 

1,970  98 1 

1 

1  . 

9,500 

4  00 

70  50 

. 

1,602  62 

5 

1  . 

5,800 

4  00 

1  00 

1.459  17 

3 

1 

4,625 

2  00 

! 

1,267  49 

3 

1 

4,000 

5  oo! 

1,768  70 

2 

1 

4,700 

3  00 

1 ,606  57 

1 

1 

2,000 

3  00 

I 

1,716  30 

2 

1 

5,000 

3  00 

1  00 

574  55 

2 

1 

2,700 

10  00 

45  00 
2  00 

4  00 

1 

•  •  1 

1,627  59 

3j 

1 

5,350 

1  85 

525  56 

ll 

2  000 

.  | 

1' 

1,200 

35  00 
9  00 
22  00 
12  50 

4  00 

30  00! 

2,791  00 

3 

1 

8,300 

4  00 

1,207  63 

2 

2,600 

2  00 

1 ,202  96 

1 

i 

1,760 

1,108  52 

2 

l 

3,000 

360  61 

1 

425 

4  00 

576  65 

3 

4,000 

10  00 

312  18 

47  85 

1  00 

2  00 

115  50 j 

21,366  90 

36 

12 

66.960 

4  00 

1,799  14 

4 

1 

New 

4.140 

5  00 

5  00 

3  00! 

1  00 

i 

1,240  56 

4 

6,500 

10  00 

5  00 

3,439  51 

1 

i 

6,000 

3  00 

|  1 

253  86 

4 

2,900 

5  00 

4  00 

1  00 

726  05 

3 

i 

1,800 

10  00 
148  50 
8  40 

4  00 

1,591  21 

1 

i 

10,000 

3,000 

2  00 

. 

1.478  40 

1 

i 

3  00 

704  50 

4 

l 

3,200 

4  50 

i . 

3  00 

677  3l| 

4 

4,600 

I . 

237  50; 

4 

4,800 

4  00 

585  35 1 

4 

3,200 

110  00 

1  . 

4  00 

16  00 

1.979  65' 

1 

l 

5,000 

3  00 

1.739  76 

3 

i 

5.450 

23  00 ! 

4  00 

| 

1,397  80 

2 

l 

4,900 

15  001 

5  00 

I  . . 

75 

1,231  25 

4 

l 

4,100 

5  00 

! 

3  00  . 

628  71 

3 

l 

2,500 

3  00 
15  0C 

>! . 

3  00  . 

649  08 
795  12 

. 

5 

5,000 

1 

2  00  . 

3 

l 

2,800 

' 

10  00 

352  4C 

. 

610C 

)  3  00 

2  75 

16  00 

20,554  76 

55 

12 

1 

79.890 

25  Of 

) 

5  Of 

) . 

1,812  98 
1,243  50 
20,81  07 
991  16 

5 

1 

4.233 

8  00 

4  00  . 

4 

1 

4,625 

35  00 

10  00 

4  00  _ 

1 

1 

2,150 

2,750 

3,300 

4,500 

2,000 

2  00 

i . 

3 

1 

10  00 1 

4  00  . 

1,452  19 
2,050  91 
733  79 

1 

27  00 

3  00  . 

1 

1 

1 

1 

3  51 

r 

3  00  . 

) 

512  10 
1,297  40 
7,162  98 
1,859  88 
1,462  70 
1,577  4C 
)  1,574  9* 

l  1 

2,000 

6,300 

1 1 .000 

11  5( 

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5  00  . 

£ 

1  1 

66  6^ 

1 

5  00  . 

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1 

52  2.! 

4  00  . 

\}  1 

1 

5,100 

3,500 

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4  00  . 

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£ 

1  2! 

72  0< 

3 

5  00  . 

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)  . 

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1 

4.100 

5.100 

4  00  . 

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1 

8  01 

3 

4  00  . 

912  61 

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3.200 
4,000 

2.200 

i 

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67  5C 

10  00  . 

2  00  . 

1,204  9? 
718  7( 

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1 

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5 

i 

35  71 

5  337  0 

56  00 

1  1  00  fiO  OO  98  71  fi  fi.r 

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2  T 

1 

75,058 
1  166.850 

20  71 

3  664  5 

8 . 

.  108  61  4  0 

0  4  7 

3  131  50  41.921  6f 

1  2- 

4 

55  7 

6  1,001.6 

3 . ‘.164  61  4  00  5  7 

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Danville  District— 
Danville  Station.  .  .  . 

Danville  Circuit . 

Broadlands  Circuit  . 
White  Heath  Circuit 

Potomac  Circuit . 

Locust  Grove . 

Galton . 

Findlay . 

Ross  vi  lie . 

Royal . 

Hillary  Circuit . 

Redmon . 

Penfield . 

Chesterville . 

Fisher. . . 

Perrysville . 

Ashmore . 


Total 


Westfield  District 
Casey  Circuit ...... 

Martinsville  Circuit. 
Westfield  Station  .  .  . 
Johnstown  Circuit.  . 

Loogootee . 

Paris . 

Marshall . 

Clarksburg . 

Westfield  Circuit .  .  . 
Greenup  Circuit.  .  .  . 
Annapolis  Circuit. . . 

Casey  Station . 

Toledo  Mission . 

Vermilion . 

Yale  Circuit . 

Avena . 

Island  Grove . 

Beecher  City . 


Total 


Olney  District 
Sumner  Circuit. . . 
Patton  Circuit.  .  . 
Oblong  Station .  .  . 

Vergennes . 

Bluford . 

Robinson . 

Mt.  Vernon . 

Edgewood  Circuit 

Parkersburg . 

St.  Francisville.  .  . 
Olney  Station .... 
Olney  Circuit .... 

New  Hebron . 

Birds  Circuit . 

Flora  Circuit . 

Delhi . 

Flora  Mission.  . . . 
Vienna  Circuit .  .  . 


1,500 

1,000 

900 

1,500 

1,300 

2,200 

900 

900 

1,600 


445 


768 


1,213 


150 

1,000 


1,700 

800 


800 


16,250 

1,200 

1,500 


1,000 

3,500 

3,000 

900 


2,500 

815 

1,400 

725 

600 


400 


Total . ! 

Summary  of  other  Districts 

Grand  Total . I 


1,213 


25,640 


1,500 

250 

1,000 

650 

800 

1,500 


800 

700, 

1,200, 

1,300 

800 

300 

1,200 


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239 

254 


493 

700 


100 

595 


1,395 


18 


80 


1,213 


12,000 

41.890 

53.890 


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£  ^ 

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1 

11,000 

11,000 

12 

20 

6,800 

6,800 

6 

20 

5,525 

5,525 

12 

40 

5,500 

5,500 

12 

30 

6,000 

6,000 

12 

20 

4,200 

4,200 

12 

45 

5,900 

5,900 

12 

40 

3,600 

3,600 

12 

30 

6,950 

6,950 

12 

25 

2,000 

2,000 

12 

60 

1,200 

1,050 

9,300 

9,300 

12 

40 

2,600 

2,600 

12 

15 

3,460 

3,221 

12 

35 

3,800 

3,800 

11 

70 

425 

425 

4,800 

4,546 

12 

40 

83,060 

82,417 

173 

530 

5,340 

4,640 

12 

40 

6,500 

6,500 

12 

40 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

45 

2,900 

2,900 

9 

15 

2,800 

2,800 

12 

40 

13,500 

12,955 

12 

50 

6,000 

5,405 

12 

30 

4,100 

4,100 

12 

40 

4,600 

4,600 

12 

35 

4,800 

4,800 

10 

16 

3,200 

3,200 

12 

40 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

50 

6,265 

5,595 

12 

50 

5,400 

5,400 

12 

40 

4,825 

4,825 

12 

60 

3,100 

3,100 

12 

30 

5,000 

5,000 

12 

40 

3,200 

3,200 

12 

40 

96,530 

94,020 

211 

701 

5,733 

5,733 

12 

75 

4,875 

4,875 

12 

50 

3,150 

3,150 

12 

40 

3,400 

3,382 

12 

40 

4,100 

4,100 

12 

55 

6,000 

6,000 

12 

30 

2,000 

2,000 

10 

10 

2,800 

2,720 

12 

20 

7,000 

7,000 

12 

50 

12,200 

11,800 

12 

75 

6,400 

6,400 

12 

65 

4,300 

4,300 

12 

50 

4,400 

4,400 

12 

35 

6,300 

6,300 

12 

45 

3,200 

3.200 

1 2  V'2 

40 

4,000 

4,000 

2,200 

2,200 

12 

38 

25 

82,058 

81,560 

190  IS 

718 

179,590 

i 

176,437 

384 

1,231 

281,648 

1  ! 

257,997 

574 JA 

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Conference  Proceedings 


SUMMARY  OF  STATISTICS 

Organized  churches,  152. 

Itinerants,  79;  local  preachers,  10;  total,  89. 

Members  at  beginning-  of  year,  10,358;  end  of  year,  10,942;  gain, 
584. 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  societies,  58;  members,  2,034;  Junior  societies, 
19;  members,  766. 

Sunday  schools,  142;  enrollment,  11,934;  teachers  and  officers, 
1,657 ;  gain  in  enrollment,  1,252. 

Telescopes  taken,  896 ;  gain,  31. 

Church-houses,  143;  value,  $241,908. 

Parsonages,  38;  yalue,  $53,890. 

Finances — Pastors’  salaries,  $32,714.03;  presiding  elders’  salaries, 
$2,781.61;  local  current  expenses,  $7,102.59;  for  church  and  par¬ 
sonage  building,  $13,889.40;  local  Sunday  school,  $4,537.74;  home 
missions,  $859.49 ;  foreign  missions,  $1,025.83 ;  woman’s  missions, 
$541.73;  church  erection,  $215.34;  Conference  church  erection, 
$1,770.21;  church  erection  special,  $263.80;  parsonage  erection, 
$9.70;  Sunday-school  general  fund,  $150.50;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  IT.  general 
fund,  $12.30;  children’s  fund,  $150.09;  Bishop’s  salary,  $438.30; 
Preachers’  Aid,  $325.97;  Conference  Preachers’  Aid,  $87.44;  bene¬ 
ficiary  education,  $100.05;  Bonebrake  Seminary,  $179.40;  colleges, 
etc.,  $55.00;  Westfield  College,  $1,001.63;  General  Conference  ex¬ 
pense,  $4.00 ;  Annual  Conference  expense,  $164.61 ;  Bible  cause, 
$5.75;  total  for  all,  $70,638.59. 


2  Lower  Wabash 


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NOTES 


Examinations  were  held  on  Tuesday. 

Rev.  G.  W.  Bonebrake  preached  on  Tuesday  night;  Dr.  W.  IT 
Funk,  Publishing  Agent,  gave  an  address  on  Missions  on  Wednes¬ 
day  night;  Bishop  Bell  lectured  on  Democracy  and  Government  on 
Thursday  night;  Dr.  J.  M.  Phillippi,  Editor  of  the  Religious  Tele¬ 
scope.  and  Dr.  J.  E.  Font,  Manager  Bonebrake  Seminary,  addressed 
the  people  on  Friday  night;  the  Branch  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  gave  a  rally 
on  Saturday  night.  These  evening  addresses  were  highly  com¬ 
mended. 

The  following-named  persons  were  introduced  to  the  Conference: 
Rev.  J.  II.  Ford,  M.  E.  pastor  of  Robinson,  Ill.;  F.  W.  Loy,  Anti- 
Saloon  District  Superintendent;  G.  S.  McGaughey,  pastor  of  the 
Christian  Church  of  Robinson,  Ill. 

Admitted  to  advisory  seats:  Rev.  J.  S.  Kendall,  General  Sec¬ 
retary  Christian  Stewardship;  Rev.  W.  R.  Funk,  Publishing  Agent; 
L.  O.  Miller,  General  Church  Treasurer;  Prof.  M.  A.  Honline, 
Director  of  Religious  Work  under  the  Board  of  Control;  Rev.  J.  M. 
Phillippi,  Editor  of  the  Religious  Telescope;  Rev.  J.  E.  Font, 
Manager  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary. 

Letters  of  regret  for  absence  sent  bv  Revs.  J.  W.  Brush,  R.  B. 
Hall,  A.  Shidler,  R.  L.  Webber,  W.  O.  Haycock,  S.  O.  Stoltz. 


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[Official  Record.] 

FIKST  DAY. 

The  fifty-third  session  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference  met  in  the 
First  United  Brethren  Church  of  Robinson,  Ill.,  September  7,  1910, 
at  9 :  00  a.m. 

The  Conference  was  called  to  order  by  Bishop  W.  M.  Bell,  who 
gave  a  most  helpful  address  that  was  very  edifying  to  all  present. 

After  roll  call,  W.  M.  Malson  was  transferred  to  White  River 
Conference,  G.  L.  Stine  given  an  open  transfer,  C.  A.  Dwyer 
received  into  Conference  on  transfer  from  St.  Joseph  Conference. 

On  motion  a  greeting  was  ordered  sent  by  telegram  to  the  con¬ 
ference  now  in  session,  of  the  M.  P.  Church,  at  Wayne  City,  Ill. 

H.  H.  Heberly  was  appointed  Conference  press  reporter. 

The  Conference  bar  was  made  to  include  eight  rows  of  seats  in 
front. 

E.  Boley  was  appointed  Conference  treasurer  in  the  absence  of 
S.  O.  Stoltz. 

The  presiding  elders’  reports  were  read  and  approved,  as  follows: 

PRESIDING  ELDER’S  REPORT — DANVILLE  DISTRICT. 

Lack  of  thorough  acquaintance  with  our  newly  acquired  territory 
put  us  at  disadvantage  in  arranging  it.  Taylorville,  represented 
to  be  a  circuit  of  three  classes,  proved  to  be  but  a  fragment  of  what, 
at  best,  was  a  scattered,  weak  charge.  In  the  division,  two  of  its 
societies  remained  within  the  bounds  of  the  Northern  Illinois 
Conference,  giving  us  one  country  class  of  sixteen  members '  six 
miles  from  Taylorville.  Brother  I.  J.  Knapp  was  appointed  pastor 
of  this  charge.  After  three  months’  earnest  effort,  first  to  find, 
then  to  make,  a  circuit,  he  resigned.  The  class  remained  without 
pastoral  service.  Time  was  when,  in  the  country  about  Taylor¬ 
ville,  the  church  had  considerable  strength.  This  splendid,  grow¬ 
ing  city  of  8,000  people  is  the  county  seat  of  Christian  County,  and 
is  an  inviting  field  for  mission  work. 

Bro.  W.  IT,  Nickerson  was  assigned  the  pastorate  of  Newman 
Circuit.  Failing  to  contract  for  salary,  he  speedily  quit  the  work. 
Early  in  the  year  it  was  revealed  that  the  financial  condition  of  the 


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Conference  Proceedings 


church  in  Newman  was  such  that  decisive  measures  needed  to  be 
taken  to  save  the  property.  There  were  obligations  amounting  to 
over  $500  that  had  to  be  provided  for.  The  trustees  gladly  con¬ 
veyed  the  property  to  our  Conference  Church  Extension  Society, 

'  in  consideration  for  which  the  society  assumes  all  indebtedness. 
The  property  is  worth  about  $1,000.  Such  being  the  outcome  of 
our  prolonged  struggle  in  Newman  the  society  will,  no  doubt,  do 
well  to  sell  the  property.  If,  to  this  end,  an  order  by  the  Con¬ 
ference  is  necessary,  it  is  recommended  such  order  be  made.  Otter- 
bein  class,  connected  with  Newman,  though  offered  the  opportunity 
for  efficient  pastoral  service,  failed  to  accept  it. 

On  September  17,  Bro.  A.  J.  Cox,  pastor  of  Hillary  charge,  was 
struck  by  a  trolley  car  and  instantly  killed.  Upon  the  unanimous 
request  of  the  congregation,  Bro.  J.  W.  McMachan,  the  class  leader, 
was  licensed  as  a  lay  preacher  and  appointed  pastor  October  8. 
With  a  noteworthy  unselfishness,  seldom  witnessed,  this  noble- 
souled  man  has  served  his  congregation  faithfully  and  well.  Vol¬ 
untarily  serving  without  compensation,  he  stipulated  that  salary 
should  be  paid  as  formerly,  but  that  it  should  be  applied  toward 
discharging  a  debt  on  the  church. 

Bro.  E.  L.  Buckner,  in  charge  of  Danville  Circuit,  resigned 
February  16  what  had,  up  to  that  time,  been  a  gratifyingly  suc¬ 
cessful  pastorate. 

Bro.  C.  A.  Dwyer,  formerly  of  the  Upper  Wabash  Conference, 
then  pastor  at  Clarks  Hill,  Ind.,  was  appointed  to  the  charge 
March  2.  This  appointment  has  proven  highly  satisfactory  to 
both  pastor  and  people. 

On  April  2,  Bro.  G.  W.  Beid  resigned  Boyal  Circuit.  On  May 
6,  Bro.  D.  E.  Meek,  a  quarterly  conference  preacher  of  our  Church 
and  a  student  in  the  Georgetown  College,  was  appointed  to  the 
charge.  Owing  to  unfavorable  conditions  in  the  Blue  Mound 
class,  he  devoted  his  services  wholly  to  the  Union  class.  Brother 
Meek  is  recommended,  by  the  quarterly  conference  of  Boyal  Cir¬ 
cuit,  to  this  Conference  for  license  to  preach. 

Our  endeavor  to  establish  a  society  in  Boyal,  though  for  a 
while  promising,  failed.  Sidney  and  Husk  chapel  churches,  placed 
under  the  care  of  the  pastor  of  Boyal  charge,  were  found  to  be 
now,  and  to  have  been  long  since,  practically  without  membership 
and  unoccupied,  save  that  Husk  chapel,  a  country  church  adjacent 
to  a  cemetery,  is  used  for  services  on  funeral  occasions.  It  is  . 
recommended  that  the  Sidney  Church  be  speedily  sold,  and  that 
Husk  chapel  be  peacefully  left  to  the  community  that  built  it,  to 
be  used  for  the  purpose  for  which  it  is  now  being  used. 

The  other  thirteen  charges  of  the  district  enjoyed  the  uninter¬ 
rupted  services  of  the  pastors  appointed  to  them,  the  reports  from 


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which,  and  that  from  the  Danville  Circuit  as  well,  will  show  grat¬ 
ifying-  results  of  the  year’s  work. 

In  the  spring  of  1909  a  mission  was  begun  in  southeast  Danville 
by  Bro.  G.  W.  Bonebrake.  The  work  prospered,  and  early  this 
year  demanded  more  attention  than  Brother  Bonebrake  could  give 
it.  At  his  request,  and  with  the  consent  of  Miss  Sarah  D.  Bow¬ 
man,  the  latter  was  appointed  pastor  of  the  mission  October  8. 
It  is  organized  under  the  name  of  Perrysville  Avenue  Mission. 
The  last  report  to  quarterly  conference  showed  a  membership  of 
17,  a  Sunday-school  enrollment  of  4-8,  an  active  Ladies’  Aid 
Society  of  16  members,  and  a  subscription  of  $324  toward  building 
a  new  church,  which,  it  is  probable,  will  be  built  this  fall.  Two 
well-located  lots  have  been  secured  for  $400.  On  May  8  there  was 
dedicated  a  tabernacle  built  on  one  of  these  lots.  Good  will  ex¬ 
pressed  in  work  and  donations  amounting  to  $34  expended  for 
material  did  it.  Driven  from  their  former  place  of  worship,  the 
congregation  and  pastor  are  independent,  happy  and  prosperous  in 
their  new  quarters. 

Among  points  demanding  special  attention  are:  (1)  Findlay. 
Years  ago  Findlav  was  a  country  church.  Now  it  has  a  central 
location  in  a  growing  town  of  1,200  people.  Always  part  of  a 
circuit,  and  much  of  the  time  indifferently  served,  it  has  not 
prospered.  It  is  now  joined  with  Kirksville,  a  village  nine  miles 
distant,  where  the  parsonage  is  located.  It  has  an  excellent,  though 
small,  membership.  The  Conference  is  asked  to  consider  whether 
it  will  not  be  a  most  wise  policy  to  man  strongly  this  town  and 
give  it  the  material  support  of  the  Conference.  (2)  Otterbein 
class  of  Newman  Circuit,  Blue  Mound  of  Boyal  Circuit,  and  Metli- 
any  class  of  Taylorville  Circuit  are  isolated  points,  not  conven¬ 
iently  attachable  to  other  charges.  In  case  of  Findlay  being  made 
a  mission  station,  Otterbein  can  be  worked  with  Kirksville,  Blue 
Mound  may  be  provided  for  locally,  and  Bethany’s  only  hope  of 
perpetuity  is  in  the  projecting  of  mission  work  in  Taylorville  and 
vicinity.  Besides  Bethany,  we  have  another  church-house,  Mound 
chapel,  five  miles  south  of  Taylorville,  occupied  by  the  Radicals 
ever  since  the  defection  of  ’89.  It  is  supposed  that  now,  by 
judicious  measures,  peaceable  occupancy  of  the  church  might  be 
obtained.  With  the  exception  of  possibly  two  circuits,  and,  ex¬ 
cepting  the  $1.00  per  member  assessment  for  Westfield  College, 
charges  where  contracts  were  made  for  specific  salaries,  including 
Danville  Circuit,  will  rej)ort  salaries  and  assessments  full — in  all, 
thirteen.  The  average  salary  of  these  thirteen  charges,  not  includ¬ 
ing  parsonages,  donations  and  moving  expenses  is  $607.70.  Ten 
charges  paid  $600  or  more.  Two  charges  paid  $500,  and  one  $300. 
The  district  has  twelve  parsonages.  There  are  thirty-eight  organ- 


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ized  classes  and  thirty-eight  Sunday  schools,  two  of  the  former 
and  three  of  the  latter  new.  In  these  Sunday  schools  are  thirty- 
four  organized  classes,  nearly  all  the  product  of  this  year.  Very 
generally,  the  state  of  Sunday  schools  is  flourishing  and  the  supply 
of  our  literature  ample.  There  are  twenty  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  and  five 
Junior  societies;  seven  W.  M.  A.  and  fourteen  Ladies*  Aid  societies. 

Telescopes,  211,  a  gain  of  30;  Watchwords,  396,  a  gain  of  27. 
There  were  reported  382  conversions  and  396  accessions.  For 
statements  of  memberships,  gains  and  losses,  we  must  depend  on 
pastors’  reports. 

Among  expenditures  for  church  and  parsonage  repairs,  improve¬ 
ments  and  furnishings  are  the  following: 

BossviUe ,  Union  Church.  Repainting  and  light  plant,  $87.00; 
repairs  on  parsonage,  $25.00. 

Danville  Station.  Balance  paid  on  piano,  $209.12;  gas  range 
and  plumbing  for  parsonage,  $43.00. 

Pen  field.  Armstrong  Church  repapered,  $56.00. 

Potomac.  Furnace  for  Potomac  Church,  repapering  and  re¬ 
painting,  $358.00, 

Heillery.  New  organ,  $75.00:  repainting  and  repapering,  $24.71. 

Broadlands.  Piano  donated  by  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.,  $350.00. 

Redmon.  Embarrass  Church,  new  foundation,  pulpit  recess, 
tower,  reseating  and  repainting,  $1,335.50.  Redmon,  new  piano 
donated  by  Bro.  John  Mason,  $350.00. 

Galton.  Repainting  church  and  parsonage,  $100.00. 

White  Heath.  Repapering  parsonage,  $30.00;  piano  purchased 
by  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  of  White  Heath,  $300. 

Locust  Grove.  New  fence  for  church  yard,  $75.00. 

Fisher.  Repairs  on  church,  $75.00. 

Farmers  Chapel  on  Danville  Circuit  is  planning  to  rebuild,  at  a 
cost  of  about  $3,000. 

Gross  salary  for  the  year,  $901.82;  expenses  of  travel,  stationery 
and  postage,  $162.05;  net  salary,  $744.77. 

The  shortage  in  salary  is  mainly  due  to  the  fact  that  Newman 
and  Taylorville,  having  no  pastors,  paid  no  salary  save  that  Tay- 
lorville  paid  $5.00. 

Danville  District  is  in  the  rich  farm  land  of  Illinois.  Generally 
speaking,  its  people  are  industrious,  prosperous  and  commendably 
liberal  in  supporting  the  Church.  Nowhere  in  the  Conference  is 
the  motto,  “Better  salaries  for  better  service,”  more  strongly  as¬ 
serted  than  here,  and  to  meet  the  challenge  properly  is  one  of  the 
most  profoundly  important,  taxing  problems  of  our  Conference 
life.  Respectfully  submitted, 

D.  R.  Sexeff. 


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REPORT  OF  OLNEY  DISTRICT. 

To  the  Bishop  and  Members  of  the  Conference ,  Greeting. 

Olney  District  is  composed  of  eighteen  fields  of  labor,  three 
stations,  three  mission  stations,  and  twelve  circuits. 

The  Conference  one  year  ago  left  two  charges  to  he  supplied — 
Vienna  and  Mt.  Vernon.  Rev.  W.  F.  Langston  was  appointed  to 
Vienna  and  Rev.  Mary  Mitchell  to  Mt.  Vernon  one  month  later. 

We  have  had  no  resignations  and  no  deaths.  Peace  and  harmony 
have  prevailed.  The  pastors  have  done  faithful  work,  and  their 
labors  have  been  crowned  with  success  as  the  reports  will  show. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  year  the  district  had  sixty-four  organized 
churches  with  a  membership  of  4,569.  Four  new  classes  were 
organized  during  the  year.  Pin  FTook  class  on  Patton  charge  was 
dissolved  as  the  result  of  the  burning  of  their  house  of  worship. 
This  class  was  located  two  miles  east  of  West  Salem  in  Edwards 
County.  In  June  the  pastor,  Bro.  J.  F.  Fowler,  with  the  assist¬ 
ance  of  Rev.  A.  H.  Coleman,  held  a  meeting  in  this  growing  town, 
which  resulted  in  five  conversions  and  a  desire  for  the  organization 
of  a  class.  The  Advent  Church  was  rented  and  the  writer  took  up 
the  appointment.  In  August,  after  a  four  days’  meeting.  Evan¬ 
gelist  H.  A.  Lehwald,  of  Olney,  organized  West  Salem  class  with 
twenty-seven  members — a  number  of  the  members  of  the  once  Pin 
Hook  class  uniting.  West  Salem  is  a  thriving  town  of  1,500 
inhabitants,  surrounded  by  United  Brethren  people,  and  presents 
a  splendid  opportunity  for  a  strong  class  in  the  near  future. 

In  February,  Evangelist  Lehwald  conducted  a  two  weeks’  meeting 
in  Delhi,  a  village  on  the  C.  &  A.  R.  R.,  thirty-five  miles  north  of 
St.  Louis,  in  Jersey  County,  which  resulted  in  sixty  conversions. 
The  writer  was  called  and  a  class  was  organized  with  forty-nine 
members,  which  has  increased  to  fifty-six  since.  Brother  Lehwald 
was  appointed  to  the  charge  and  served  it  faithfully  till  Confer¬ 
ence,  receiving  salary  of  $15.00  a  trip  for  every  two  weeks’  service. 
This  would  be  a  salary  of  $360  per  year.  This  is  a  hopeful  class  in 
a  thriving  community,  and  the  first  to  be  organized  in  the  extreme 
western  part  of  our  territory.  But  what  has  been  accomplished 
here  may  be  repeated  many  times  if  we  will  heed  the  word  of  Clod 
to  Israel,  “Every  place  whereon  the  souls  of  your  feet  shall  tread 
shall  be  yours.”  The  Evangelist  is  deserving  of  praise  for  the 
good  work  done  in  the  organization  of  these  two  classes,  and  his 
loyalty  to  the  Church  to  which  he  has  so  recently  come. 

In  April,  Bro.  J.  F.  Fowler  and  Evangelist  M.  L.  Bodine,  of 
Oklahoma  Conference,  held  a  meeting  at  Friendsville,  in  Wabash 
County.  Fifty-seven  were  converted  and  a  class  of  fourteen  mem¬ 
bers  was  organized.  The  new  class  was  attached  to  Patton  charge 
and  served  the  remainder  of  the  year  by  Brother  Fowler. 


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In  June,  Rev.  I.  S.  Mclver,  pastor  of  Parkersburg  Circuit,  with 
the  assistance  of  Evangelist  Bodine,  held  a  meeting  at  Kimball 
schoolhouse,  two  miles  east  of  Calhoun,  in  Richland  County,  which 
resulted  in  sixteen  conversions  and  the  organization  of  a  class  of 
thirty-one  members.  Money  was  secured  to  purchase  and  move  to 
this  location,  the  abandoned  Calhoun  Church,  provided  such  ar¬ 
rangements  could  be  made  with  the  Conference.  The  class  was 
attached  to  Parkersburg  Circuit,  in  care  of  Brother  Mclver.  The 
district  lfow  has  sixty-seven  organized  churches,  a  gain  of  three. 

The  frequency  and  severity  of  the  winter  storms  greatly  hindered 
revival  work,  but  these  faithful  pastors  proved  their  love  for  God 
and  the  souls  of  the  people  by  braving  the  storms  and  achieving 
many  splendid  victories.  The  result  of  the  year’s  campaigns  is  as 
follows:  Parkersburg,  60  conversions,  44  accessions;  Olney  Cir¬ 

cuit,  50  conversions,  45  accessions;  Olney  Station,  45  conversions, 
36  accessions;  Flora  Station,  31  conversions,  23  accessions;  Flora 
charge,  12  conversions,  9  accessions;  Fdgewood,  16  conversions,  11 
accessions;  Fluford,  15  conversions,  15  accessions;  Mt.  Vernon,  53 
conversions,  16  accessions;  Vergennes,  13  conversions,  8  accessions; 
Vienna,  27  conversions,  2  accessions;  Patton,  240  conversions,  111 
accessions;  St.  Francisville,  54  conversions,  31  accessions;  Law- 
renceville,  3  conversions,  17  accessions;  Sumner,  55  conversions* 
52  accessions;  Birds,  22  conversions,  30  accessions;  Hebron,  15 
conversions,  8  accessions;  Robinson,  30  conversions,  117  accessions; 
Oblong,  26  conversions,  37  accessions;  Delhi,  60  conversions,  56 
accessions;  increase  at  West  Salem,  6.  Total  conversions  on  the 
district,  827 ;  accessions,  673. 

The  district  has  sixty-three  houses  of  worship  and  fourteen  par¬ 
sonages  with  a  total  valuation  of  $97,655.  Within  the  year  Pin 
Hook  Church  on  Patton  charge  was  burned.  Had  no  insurance. 

Soon  after  Conference  our  St.  Francisville  Church,  which  was 
reported  at  last  Conference,  was  dedicated  free  of  debt.  This  is 
one  of  the  best  buildings  in  the  Conference,  and  the  pastor.  Rev. 
E.  M.  Pierson,  and  his  faithful  board  of  trustees,  deserve  great 
credit  tor  their  wise  management  and  untiring  effort  in  the 
erection  of  this  building. 

Lawrenceville  Church,  for  which' a  subscription  was  in  circula-. 
tion  at  our  last  Conference,  was  pushed  to  completion.  Two 
efforts  were  made  to  dedicate,  but  both  failed,  one  because  of  storm, 
the  other  for  lack  of  funds.  This  building  cost  $9,656.  It  is 
without  doubt  the  best  building  in  the  Conference.  It  is  modern 
in  every  respect.  The  pastor,  Rev.  S.  O.  Stoltz,  has  certainly 
proved  himself  a  success  in  church  building.  With  a  membership 
of  only  twenty-two,  and  no  place  to  hold  religious  service  for  more 
than  half  the  year,  he  lias  toiled  on  in  the  face  of  extreme  dis- 


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couragement  with  the  faith  of  an  Abraham.  There  are  yet  $1,600 
to  be  provided,  but  with  such  faith  in  the  front,  we  are  confident 
the  goal  will  be  reached. 

The  splendid  house  of  worship  at  Delhi,  valued  at  $3,300,  was 
deeded  to  our  denomination  as  the  result  of  the  organization  of  the 
Delhi  class. 

Our  people  have  been  activre  in  the  repairing  of  churches  and 
parsonages.  Parkersburg  Church  was  repaired  at  a  cost  of  $130. 
Wymore  Church,  Olney  Circuit,  is  adding  belfry,  bell,  paper  and 
paint,  cost  $300.  Olney  Station  repaired  parsonage  and  built 
concrete  pavement,  cost  $100.  Bethel  Church,  Flora  Circuit,  was 
improved  and  carpeted  at  a  cost  of  $155.  The  adult  class  of  Lynn 
Branch,  Edgewood  Church,  improved  their  house,  cost  $35.  The 
churches  and  parsonages  of  Bin  ford  Circuit  received  repairs  cost¬ 
ing  $500.  Pearl  Chapel,  Birch  Circuit,  was  repaired  and  old  debt 
paid  on  Birch  Church,  cost  $275.  Oak  Grove  Church,  Vergennes 
Circuit,  was  papered  and  carpeted,  cost  $31.50.  The  churches 
and  parsonage  of  Sumner  Circuit  were  improved  at  a  cost  of  $120. 
Robinson  Church  and  parsonage  received  improvements  in  the  way 
of  paper  and  carpet  for  the  church;  paint  to  the  parsonage;  cost 
$125.  A  fence  around  the  parsonage  and  a  piano  installed  in  the 
church  at  Oblong,  cost  $140. 

The  pastor  at  Vienna,  Bro.  W.  F.  Tankston,  is  busily  engaged 
in  a  parsonage  enterprise  at  Olmstead.  A  lot  has  been  bought  and 
paid  for,  and  the  hard  lumber  is  on  the  ground,  and  a  subscription 
is  being  circulated  and  some  money  is  in  the  treasury  with  which 
to  begin  work.  Good  for  Vienna.  St.  Francisville  parsonage  was 
roofed  and  otherwise  improved  at  a  cost  of  $98.  Four  pianos  and 
two  organs  have  been  installed  this  year. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  year  we  had  60  Sunday  schools  with  an 
enrollment  of  4,026;  now  60,  enrollment  4,620;  47  organized  adult 
classes,  enrollment  1,022;  6  cradle  rolls,  enrollment  360;  6  home 
departments,  roll  not  given.  Y.  B.  C.  E.  V.  societies  last  year  26, 
roll  836;  this  year  26,  roll  860;  Juniors  last  year  5,  roll  323;  this 
year  5,  roll  215.  W.  M.  A.  societies  last  year  3;  this  year  5,  roll  89. 
13  mission  study  classes,  roll  148. 

We  note  the  increase  of  literature.  Religious  Telescopes  last 
year  395,  this  year  403,  increase  24;  Watchwords  last  year  562,  this 
year  697,  gain  135;  Evangels  last  year  34,  this  year  56,  gain  22; 
Friend  for  Boys  and  Girls  last  year  150,  this  year  370,  gain  220; 
Quarterlies  last  year  3,589,  this  year  5,055;  Bible  Teachers  last 
year  202,  this  year  198. 

The  total  salary  paid  the  pastors  of  this  territory  last  year  was 
$9,672.65,  or  an  average  of  $537.37,  not  including  the  presents.  The 
salary  promised  this  year  totals  $11,798,  an  average  of  $655.22,  a 


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gain  of  $2,125.35,  an  average  increase  of  $112.52.  Fourteen  of  the 
eighteen  fields  promised  increase  ranging  from  $150  down.  Fif¬ 
teen  of  the  eighteen  fields  paid  increase.  The  total  salary  paid 
pastors,  $11,219.07,  an  average  of  $623.28.  This  is  $579  short  of 
the  promised  salary,  but  an  increase  over  last  year  of  $1,546.42,  or 
an  average  increase  of  abont  $88. 

A  large  per  cent,  of  the  fields  have  their  assessments  full.  A 
few  are  over-full.  Pastors  have  inquired  what  to  do  with  the 
surplus. 

Westfield — Home  and  foreign  missions  and  church  erection  have 
not  been  lost  sight  of.  One  Sunday  school — it  is  worthy  of  men¬ 
tion — gave  $135  to  missions.  We  have  a  few  fields  far  behind, 
am  sorry  to  say. 

Personal — I  am  thankful  to  God  for  health  to  keep  in  the  work 
throughout  the  year.  I  thank  the  pastors  for  their  patience  with 
and  kindness  shown  me.  All  the  quarterly  conferences  were  held 
in  person,  except  when  at  Lawrenceville  dedication  and  Delhi. 
Bros.  E.  M.  Pierson,  S.  O.  Stoltz,  J.  B.  FTorveil  and  W.  L.  Duncan 
assisted  me  in  the  work  for  which  I  extend  my  sincere  thanks. 
Traveled  5,639  miles,  preached  253  sermons,  held  69  regular  quar¬ 
terly  conferences,  and  4  call  sessions.  Deceived  salary,  $1,020; 
paid  traveling  expenses  and  postage,  $110.15. 

J.  S.  McCreery. 


REPORT  OF  WESTFIELD  DISTRICT. 

Westfield  District  is  composed  of  eighteen  fields  of  labor,  three 
stations,  one  mission  station  and  fourteen  circuits,  with  fifty-eight 
church-houses  and  twelve  parsonages.  Immediately  on  the  adjourn¬ 
ment  of  Conference  a  year  ago  three  pastors  resigned — C.  C.  Plogue 
resigning  Johnstown,  Otto  Cummins  resigning  Greenup  and  Curtis 
Williams  resigning  Island  Grove.  I  appointed  A.  J.  Olmstead 
pastor  of  Johnstown,  J.  E.  Spencer,  pastor  of  Greenup,  and  Arthur 
Beldon  pastor  of  Island  Grove.  These  men,  with  those  appointed 
by  the  Conference,  served  during  the  year. 

A  gooct  degree  of  revival  interest  has  been  manifest  during  the 
year,  there  having  been  532  conversions  on  the  district.  The 
accessions  to  the  Church  by  charges  are  as  follows:  Paris,  112; 
Island  Grove,  46;  Casey  Circuit,  40;  Casey,  37;  Westfield,  37; 
Toledo,  35;  Annapolis,  21;  Clarksburg,  20;  Johnstown,  17;  Beecher 
City,  15;  Yale,  15;  Marshall,  14;  Martinsville,  13;  Vermillion,  11; 
Westfield  Circuit,  10;  Avena,  3;  making  a  total  of  444.  These 
statistics  are  subject  to  revision  as  some  of  them  were  taken  three 
months  ago. 

There  are  51  Sunday  schools  with  an  enrollment  of  3,337  schol¬ 
ars,  there  being  an  increase  of  304  over  what  the  same  charges 


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reported  last  year.  There  is  quite  an  interest  awakened  in  the 
adult  class  movement,  there  being  29  organized  classes  with  an 
enrollment  of  641.  There  are  also  a  number  of  home  department 
classes  and  cradle  rolls. 

There  are  240  Telescopes  taken  and  414  Watchwords. 

The  Young  People’s  work  has  had  quite  a  growth,  there  now 
being  14  societies  with  563  members,  against  8  societies  with  298 
members  reported  by  the  same  charges  last  year. 

Last  year  there  were  reported  4  Junior  societies  with  154  mem¬ 
bers;  this  year  we  have  7  societies  with  269  members. 

There  has  been  a  fine  growth  in  the  Woman’s  Missionary  Associa¬ 
tion  work,  there  now  being  11  locals  with  a  membership  of  259, 
Westfield  leading  with  a  membership  of  55  and  Casey  following 
with  a  membership  of  45.  There  are  11  Woman’s  Aid  Societies 
with  a  membership  of  223.  These  societies  are  proving  very  help¬ 
ful  in  securing  money  for  the  different  interests  of  the  Church. 

Casey  Circuit  has  purchased  a  parsonage  for  the  use  of  the 
pastor  at  a  cost  of  $1,200.  $500  has  been  paid  on  the  property, 

and  three  years’  time  is  given  in  which  to  pay  the  balance.  The 
property  is  located  in  Casey  and  consists  of  a  seven-roomed  cottage 
with  four  lots,  large  barn,  other  out  buildings  and  all  kinds  of 
fruit  trees. 

The  Vermilion  Circuit  people  have  reroofed  their  parsonage  and 
repainted  the  same,  and  installed  electric  lights  in  the  Vermilion 
Church;  the  cost  of  painting  and  lighting  being  $200.  The  trustees 
of  Weaver  Chapel  on  Westfield  Circuit  have  almost  enough  money 
secured  to  reroof  the  church  and  plaster  the  same.  Casey  Station 
has  paid  balance  of  debt  on  parsonage.  Longpoint  Church  on 
Casey  Circuit  has  been  reseated  at  a  cost  of  $300.  Centenary 
Church  on  Martinsville  Circuit  has  been  made  practically  new  by 
being  reroofed,  repainted,  repapered  and  by  having  a  new  founda¬ 
tion  and  a  new  rostrum,  the  cost  of  the  improvement  being  $305. 
The  debt  on  the  Marshall  parsonage  has  been  reduced  to  $595. 
Bell  Air  Church  on  Annapolis  Circuit  has  been  greatly  improved, 
and  the  people  have  secured  a  new  organ  for  the  church.  Grace 
Church  on  the  same  charge  has  installed  a  new  gasoline  lighting 
plant.  Olive  Church  on  Toledo  Circuit  has  been  greatly  improved 
by  being  reroofed  and  repainted,  and  the  parsonage  on  the  same 
charge  has  been  repapered.  The  trustes  of  Fancher  Church  on 
Beecher  Circuit  have  bought  the  lot  adjoining  the  church  at  a  cost 
of  $85,  and  have  also  placed  a  gasoline  lighting  plant  in  the 
church.  Other  improvements  have  been  made  on  churches  on  the 
district,  so  that  nearly  all  the  churches  are  in  good  condition. 
Value  of  churches,  $69,700;  value  of  parsonages,  $17,250. 


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The  district  promised  an  increase  of  $700  on  pastors’  salaries 
above  what  the  same  charges  paid  last  year.  There  will  be  charges 
that  will  not  pay  the  whole  amount  promised,  and  while  we  have 
not  the  accurate  statistics  at  hand,  we  are  assured  that  there  will 
be  an  increase  over  last  year.  Where  there  is  a  failure  in  paying* 
the  amount  promised,  it  is  due,  as  1  believe,  to  the  lack  of  a  finan¬ 
cial  system. 

The  majority  of  the  charges  will  have  all  Conference  assessments 
in  full.  Pastors’  reports  will  show  that  while  a  number  of  charges 
have  a  nice  offering  for  home  and  foreign  missions,  some  will  not 
have  near  what  they  should. 

I  did  all  I  could  to  assist  pastors  in  securing  Conference  benevo¬ 
lences,  and  assisted  in  the  securing  of  pastors’  salaries  in  every  way 
I  could. 

I  held  all  my  quarterlies  in  person,  preaching  241  times,  traveling 
by  rail  5,032  miles,  by  private  conveyance  731  miles,  spending  on 
the  field  235  days,  and  paying  out  for  traveling  expense  $124.89. 
Salary,  $961.56;  net  salary,  $836.58. 

This  is  a  unique  year  in  my  life,  having  reached  the  fiftieth 
milestone  in  life’s  race,  having  devoted  one-half  of  my  life,  or 
twenty-five  years,  to  the  ministry  without  resignation  or  location. 

I  feel  that  my  labor  has  been  very  poorly  bestowed,  and  yet  I 
want  ,  if  it  is  the  Lord’s  will,  to  devote  all  my  active  life  to  preach¬ 
ing  the  gospel,  for  I  love  to  work  in  the  vineyard  of  the  Lord. 

The  Lord  has  been  good  to  me  all  the  years,  and  the  brethren 
have  been  universally  kind,  for  which  I  am  profoundly  thankful. 
Pray  for  me  that  I  may  become  more  and  more  efficient  as  a  work¬ 
man  in  His  vineyard.  Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  B.  Connett, 
Presiding  Elder. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  JL  H.  Heberly. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION— FIRST  DAY— 1:30  PAL 
Devotion  was  conducted  by  J.  F.  Fowler. 

The  inactive  list  of  the  Conference  members  was  then  corrected 
with  the  following  actions :  Owing  to  permanent  residence  in 
another  Conference,  the  names  of  J.  W.  Brush,  A.  Shidler,  W.  IT. 
Elliott  and  wife,  and  J.  F.  Edmundson  were  referred  to  the  Com¬ 
mittee  on  Conference  Relations  with  a  view  to  giving  them  trans¬ 
fers;  owing  to  unexcused  absence,  II.  D.  Bourne,  E.  R.  Johns,  and 
G.  W.  Mabel  were  referred  to  the  same  committee;  owing  to  some 


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irregularity,  J.  P.  Watson  was  referred  to  said  committee;  J.  Cou- 
gill’s  name  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Memoirs;  B.  B.  Hall 
was  granted  transfer  to  Indiana  Conference  and  J.  F.  Shuey  to 
North  Illinois  Conference. 

The  following  committees  were  announced  by  the  chairman : 

Devotion — J.  B.  Norviel,  J.  T.  McCreery,  Peter  Smith. 

Candidates  for  the  Ministry — J.  0.  Fowler,  H.  W.  Broadstone, 

C.  A.  Hall. 

Conference  Relations — W.  C.  Harbert,  H.  H.  Heberly,  D.  C.  Ade. 

Boundary  and  Finance — I).  B.  Seneff,  J.  T.  McCreery,  J.  B. 
Connett,  T.  D.  Spyker,  B.  F.  Daugherty,  C.  A.  Dwyer,  B.  B.  Phelps, 
E.  M.  Pierson,  L.  E.  Miller,  L.  A.  Bider,  J.  M.  England,  Jesse 
Snell,  B.  A.  Langley,  Boss  Woolford,  C.  C.  Hodges. 

Elders  Orders — E.  E.  Bundy,  W.  L.  Duncan,  B.  Griffin. 

Memoirs — T.  Walters,  Z.  II.  Byard,  N.  E.  Boyer. 

Auditing — C.  O.  Myers,  W.  Quigley,  J.  B.  Blair. 

B.  C.  Peters  and  C.  W.  Perkins  were  placed  upon  the  committee 
to  assist  the  Statistical  Committee,  E.  Boley  having  been  placed 
upon  another  committee  and  G.  L.  Stine  having  taken  an  open 
transfer  and  soon  departed  to  the  White  Biver  Conference. 

The  following  report  was  read  and  approved : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  SABBATH  SCHOOLS. 

There  are  a  great  many  problems  to  be  solved  in  Christian  work 
and  different  departments  of  it,  but  no  place  furnishes  such  good 
opportunities  for  Christian  work  or  service  as  the  Sunday  school. 
This  is  due  largely  to  the  nature  of  the  work  and  its  results.  The 
influence  exerted  upon  the  minds  of  millions  of  children  must  be 
great  indeed,  although  these  influences  may  be  silent.  Yet  we 
know  that  they  are  continually  going  out  with  the  individuals,  for 
God  says,  “My  word  shall  not  return  unto  me  void,  but  it  shall 
accomplish  that  which  I  please  and  it  shall  prosper  in  the  thing 
whereunto  I  sent  it.” 

The  Sunday  school  is  the  Bible  Study  Department  of  the  church 
of  Christ  and  should  not  be  treated  indifferently.  Life  cannot  be 
maintained  without  nourishment,  nor  can  the  soul  live  without 
being  nourished  by  the  Word  of  God,  upon  which  strong  Christian 
character  is  being  built,  which  doubt  and  skepticism  will  be  unable 
to  overthrow.  It  is  the  greatest  auxiliary  of  the  church.  It  does 
what  no  other  department  of  Christian  activity  does,  in  the  way  of 
bringing  and  concentrating  the  truth  upon  the  individual.  It 
reaches  more  homes  and  touches  more  hearts  than  anv  other  one 


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branch  of  church  work,  while  under  God  it  has  been  and  is  one  of 
the  mightiest  of  church  agencies  in  paving  the  way  for  the  pastor 
and  church  in  developing  the  characters  of  the  youths  of  our 
country  and  molding  in  them  the  forms  of  the  manly  virtues  which 
will  enable  them  to  grapple  with  the  vital  issues  of  right  and 
wrong,  becoming  the  heirs  of  victory  for  God  and  the  right. 

It  is  no  disparagement  to  say  that  its  power  for  God  lias  never 
reached  its  highest  attainments.  Yet  this  institution — which  is  a 
John  the  Baptist  going  forth  into  the  wilderness,  bearing  the  flam¬ 
ing  torch  of  salvation,  paving  the  way  for  the  churches  and  setting 
thousands  of  Christians  at  just  the  kind  of  work  they  need — cer¬ 
tainly  is  a  tower  of  strength  to  the  church  of  the  living  God,  in 
that  it  instills  into  the  minds  of  the  young  their  duty  to  God  and 
their  fellow-men.  It  is  a  tower  of  strength  to  the  nation,  when 
we  consider  that  the  permanency,  stability  and  safety  of  a  nation 
depends  upon  the  adherence  of  its  people  to  the  principles  of  right- 
on  sness. 

Our  hearts  are  sad  and  our  heads  hang  with  shame  to  learn 
of  the  decision  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  our  State  that  there  shall 
be  no  more  reading  of  the  Bible  in  our  public  schools.  lie  spoke 
well,  who  said,  “If  you  write  upon  paper  a  careless  hand  may 
destroy  it,  if  you  write  upon  parchment  the  moth  and  dust  may 
cover  and  eradicate  it,  if  you  carve  upon  marble  it  may  be  blotted 
out  by  the  elements,  if  you  write  with  a  pen  of  iron  upon  the 
granite  rock  it  shall  pass  away  when  earth  decays;  but  if  you 
write  upon  the  heart  of  a  child  and  there  engrave  the  name  of 
Jesus  it  shall  last.  It  shall  endure  when  time  shall  be  no  more, 
when  earth  shall  sink  out  of  sight,  when  the  last  star  shall  drop 
from  the  vault  of  space;  you  have  written  upon  a  living  soul  and 
that  soul  lives  forever. 

Viewing  then  the  great  responsibility  and  opportunities  which 
are  upon  us;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved ,  That  we,  as  pastors,  use  every  fair  means  to  urge  our 
people  to  attend,  and  to  show  the  importance  of  attending  the 
Sunday  school. 

That  we  encourage  the  Teacher-Training,  Home  and  Cradle 
Boll  departments. 

That  we  commend  and  appreciate  the  strenuous  and  successful 
efforts  of  our  editor,  H.  H.  Fout,  and  Secretary  Bobert  Cowden  in 
bringing  our  literature  and  Sunday  schools  up  to  the  standard. 

L.  E.  Miller, 

Committee. 

By  motion  the  Bishop  was  instructed  to  make  a  brief  public 
examination  of  the  pastors’  reports  in  addition  to  the  committee’s 
report. 


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y 

The  following  report  was  adopted : 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  OX  CHRISTIAN 


STEWARDSHIP. 


In  the  beginning  God  revealed  to  the  world  a  certain  method  of 
doing  business,  a  perfect  method.  His  gift  to  man  in  the  creation 
of  the  world  was  a  perfect  gift.  In  planning  the  universe,  man’s 
environment  was  so  beautifully  and  perfectly  arranged  that  every¬ 
thing  man  needs  is  at  his  command. 

Also  the  plan  of  salvation  that  God  gave  is  a  perfect  plan. 
Man  may  question  this  plan,  but  not  a  single  defect  can  be  found. 
And  as  God  gave  a  perfect  plan,  he  also  gave  a  perfect  Liberator 
in  his  only  Son,  which  is  the  best  gift  ever  received  by  man. 

As  his  gifts  have  been  perfect,  he  has  given  us  a  perfect  plan 
by  which  to  give  to  him.  We  are  only  stewards  of  God.  Hence 
we  are  to  find  what  we  owe  to  oar  Lord. 

In  Deut.  16:  17  we  read,  “Every  man  shall  give  unto  the  Lord 
as  he  is  able,  according  to  the  blessing  of  the  Lord  thy  God  which 
lie  hath  given  to  thee.”  What  that  blessing  is  we  must  determine 
by  our  power  to  earn.  Every  one  is  to  give  according  to  what  he 
earns  and  not  according  to  what  he  saves.  In  Ezra  2 :  69,  we  read 
that  they  gave  of  their  ability.  In  Acts  11:29,  we  read,  “Then 
the  disciples,  every  man  acording  to  his  ability,  determined  to  send 
relief  unto  the  brethren  which  dwelt  in  Judea.”  This  ability  was 
according  to  their  power  to  earn.  To  do  away  with  all  complica¬ 
tions,  God  expects  of  every  man,  as  his  portion  of  blessings  be¬ 
stowed,  a  tithe. 

If  this  be  God’s  standard,  it  is  very  important  that  we  preach 
and  teach  this  part  of  worship.  We  are  very  appreciative  of  the 
valuable  information  that  Doctor  Kendall  is  bringing  to  the 
Church  through  the  Telescope  and  the  Watchword.  And  we  heart¬ 
ily  recommend  a  more  considerate  study  of  this  important  teaching. 

We  also  recommend  that  every  pastor,  official  and  member  secure 
a  copy  of  Doctor  Kendall’s  new  book,  “The  Letter  Way  in  Church 
Finance.” 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

Committee. 


Doctor  Kendall  spoke  earnestly  upon  the  subject  and  gave  an 
interesting  responsive  reading  on  Stewardship  and  comment  upon 
said  reading. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted : 


RESOLUTION. 

Whereas,  The  question  of  an  adequate  support  for  the  pastors 
of  this  Conference  is  of  vital  importance  to  our  advancement,  and 


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many  charges  do  not  pay  as  much  salary  as  they  could  or  should, 
and  some  do  not  even  pay  the  amount  promised ;  and 

Whereas,  The  cause  of  failure,  as  we  believe,  is  for  the  want  of  a 
financial  system;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved ,  first.  That  a  committee  of  five  be  appointed  by  the 
Bishop,  consisting*  of  three  ministers  and  two  laymen,  to  prepare 
and  present  to  this  Conference  for  adoption  a  clear,  practicable, 
workable  financial  system  for  pastoral  support  and  for  securing  of 
Conference  benevolences  for  churches  that  have  no  system. 

And  if  it  is  thought  that  a  uniform  system  cannot  be  worked  in 
both  city  and  country  church,  they  shall  present  a  plan  for  both. 
That  Rev.  J.  S.  Kendall,  General  Christian  Stewardship  Secretary, 
be  invited  to  meet  with  and  assist  the  committee  in  its  work. 

Second.  That  each  lay  delegate  elected  to  Conference  be  made 
by  this  Conference  a  member  of  the  Finance  Committee  of  the 
charge  he  represents,  that  he  carry  to  the  committee  the  plan 
adopted  here,  and  that  he,  together  with  the  pastor,  meet  with 
the  committee  when  they  meet  to  contract  with  the  pastor,  and 
assist  said  committee  in  planning  and  in  carrying  out  the  financial 
system  adopted. 

Third.  That  the  committee  maintain  its  organization  through¬ 
out  the  year  for  the  purpose  of  assisting  and  enforcing  the  action 
of  the  Conference,  and  that  they  meet  at  each  quarterly  meeting  if 
necessary,  and  oftener  if  need  be,  and  take  such  steps  from  time 
to  time  as  may  be  necessary  in  carrying  out  the  aforesaid  plan. 

J.  B.  CONNETT. 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  OX  FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

“The  Decisive  Hour  of  Christian  Missions”  is  the  title  of  John 
R.  Mott’s  new  mission  study  book  fresh  from  the  press  and 
expresses  the  foreign  mission  situation. 

N ever  in  the  history  of  the  world  has  the  prophecy  been  so  nearly 
fulfilled,  “Unto  him  shall  the  gathering  of  the  nations  be.”  The 
decisive  hour  for  action  has  come,  and  will  the  church  meet  the 
challenge  ? 

Many  of  the  most  earnest  Christians  of  to-day,  while  not  directly 
opposed  to  foreign  missions,  feel  most  keenly  that  the  emphasis 
should  be  placed  upon  the  home  parish,  if  needed.  The  entire 
effort  of  the  home  church  should  not  be  expressed  upon  those 
nearest  at  hand. 

Many  that  gathered  at  the  Laymen’s  National  Missionary  Con¬ 
gress  thought  thus,  but  as  the  vision  of  Christ's  equal  love  to  all 
the  world  was  held  up  and  each  member’s  responsibility  to  uGo 
into  all  the  world,”  strong  men  wept  and  hung  their  heads  in  shame, 
and  in  the  spirit  of  the  Laymen’s  Movement  said,  “If  Christ 


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meant  that  every  believer  must  “go  into  all  the  world,”  why  are  we 
playing  with  the  job?  Let  us  tackle  the  whole  job  as  Christ  meant 
or  change  the  Bible.  What  have  the  laymen  done?  They  de¬ 
manded  the  total  cost  for  the  evangelization  of  the  whole  world. 
When  told  the  amount,  they  said  “we  can  do  it.”  Not  less  to  home 
missions  under  this  vision  of  Christ,  nay  rather  doubling,  but  in 
addition  breaking  the  alabaster  box  of  richest  perfume  into  the 
dark  places  neglected  only  too  long.  It  is  wonderful  what  a  world 
vision  held  up  to  a  congregation  will  do  in  consecration  of  lives 
and  gifts. 

The  reports  at  Edinburgh  Conference  show  stupendous  victories 
throughout  the  world  under  the  new  vision. 

Our  Church  has  shared  in  these  victories  to  some  extent.  Has 
our  Conference?  Have  we  done  our  duty?  As  a  committee,  we 
have  failed  in  receiving  one  response  to  the  plan  adopted  by  our 
General  Conference  for  the  meeting  of  our  obligation  of  five  million 
souls  of  the  unevangelized  world.  Perhaps  we  did  not  fully  under¬ 
stand  it.  Perhaps  we  felt  we  needed  more  time  to  study  it  out 
for  our  congregations.  Brethren,  let  us  not  forget  that  we  have 
the  three-fold  responsibility — 

The  local  church. 

The  national  parish. 

The  world  parish. 

Realizing  anew  our  responsibility  be  it  therefore 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we  persistently  hold  up  the  standard  of  a 

Missionary  Church,  which  is : 

(a)  A  missionary  pastor. 

(b)  A  missionary  committee. 

(c)  A  missionary  Sunday  school. 

(d)  Systematic  missionary  education. 

(e)  An  every-member  canvass  for  weekly  offerings  for  missions. 

(f)  Daily  fervent  prayer  for  this  interest. 

2.  That  we  heartily  encourage  the  organization  of  foreign  mis¬ 
sion  study  classes,  and  especially  emphasizing  the  new  book,  “The 
Decisive  Hour  of  Christian  Missions.” 

3.  That  we  pledge  ourselves  anew  to  a  searching  study  of  the 
Bible  on  the  subject  of  missions,  studying  Christ’s  attitude  to  the 
subject  and  then  carrying  it  out  regardless  of  cost  and  sacrifice. 

H.  H.  Heberly, 

S.  O.  Stoltz, 

C.  E.  Bigelow, 

Committee. 

Doctor  Funk  spoke  earnestly  upon  the  subject. 

The  chairman  then  appointed,  as  a  Committee  on  Church  Ex¬ 
penses,  conforming  to  the  resolution  introduced  by  J.  P>.  Connett, 


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the  following:  W.  L.  Duncan,  F.  H.  King,  G.  W.  Bonebrake, 
Mrs.  Frame,  W.  B.  Adams. 

The  Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship  for  the  coming  year 
was  appointed,  as  follows:  L.  E.  Miller,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  C.  E. 
Bigelow. 

D.  F.  Meek,  J.  H.  Easton,  C.  N.  Gladwell  were  referred  to  the 
Committee  on  Candidates  for  the  Ministry. 

W.  L.  Perkins  was  appointed  Conference  Chorister. 

A.  J.  Olmstead  and  H.  A.  Lehwald,  coming  from  other  churches, 
were  recommended  to  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  for 
membership. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  pronounced  by  T.  D.  Spyker. 


THURSDAY  MORNING — SECOND  DAY— 8:00  A.  M. 

Devotions  conducted  by  Z.  H.  Byard. 

The  following  reports  were  approved: 

COMMITTEE  ON  CANDIDATES  FOR  THE  MINISTRY. 

We,  your  committee,  submit  the  following  report:  There  ap¬ 
peared  before  us  D.  F.  Meek,  C.  N.  Gladwell  and  J.  H.  Easton,  and 
were  examined  as  per  Discipline,  whom  we  found  clear  in  doctrine, 
up  to  the  educational  standard,  and  in  full  sympathy  with  our 
Church  government. 

We  therefore  recommend  that  they  receive  license  to  preach  and 
be  received  into  Conference. 

Rspectfully, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 
C.  A.  Hall, 

Committee. 

THE  CHRISTIAN  HOME. 

For  more  than  a  century,  we,  as  a  church,  have  been  struggling 
with  some  very  perplexing  problems  in  and  out  of  the  Church, 
such  as  unbelief,  hypocrisy,  disloyalty  and  worldliness. 

We  have  made  earnest  study  along  lines  of  church  development, 
such  as  organized  Sunday-school  classes,  men’s  movements,  mis¬ 
sionary  enterprises  and  the  temperance  cause. 

But,  brethren,  with  all  the  organized  forces  in  the  field,  and  all 
our  strong  men  in  the  pulpit,  we  have  not  yet  seen  the  desire  of 


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our  hearts  in  acquiring  an  ideal  church.  And  we  never  shall  see  it 
until  the  question  is  solved  in  our  own  homes. 

When  we  secure  the  right  kind  of  homes  in  this  country  then 
we  will  have  the  right  kind  of  government  in  church  and  in  State. 
The  character  of  every  child  is  formed  within  the  family  circle. 
A  child  on  its  first  day  in  public  school  advertises  its  home.  If 
you  want  to  know  what  the  home  is  just  study  the  child,  for  the 
child  is  a  reproduction  of  the  parents. 

If  a  godly  example  has  been  maintained  in  the  house,  children 
will  be  godly.  The  old  prophet  said,  in  regard  to  the  protection 
of  human  life,  “When  thou  buildest  a  new  house  then  thou  shalt 
make  a  battlement  for  thy  roof,  that  if  any  man  fall  therefrom  his 
blood  shall  be  upon  his  own  head  and  not  thine.”  That  law  is 
ever  operative  in  our  day.  A  man  may  build  a  public  building  just 
as  he  wishes,  but  the  law  says  that  you  must  swing  the  doors  out¬ 
ward.  This  law  was  made  to  protect  human  life.- 

We  have  a  law  to  protect  spiritual  life,  and  this  law  is  home 
government.  If  we  train  up  a  child  in  the  way  it  should  go,  when 
it  is  old  it  will  not  depart  from  it. 

IIow  careful  we  parents  should  be  in  conversation  and  all  actions 
before  the  child,  for  the  impressions  made  in  the  home  upon  the 
child  are  lasting.  Respectfully, 

H.  S.  Reese, 

Committee. 

COMMITTEE  ON  FOURTH  YEAR. 

We  submit  the  following  report:  There  appeared  before  us 
Mrs.  R.  J.  Nash,  T.  II.  Decker,  J.  L.  Pellum.  Their  grades  follow: 

Mrs.  R.  J.  Nash — Apologetics,  97%';  Manual  of  Ethics,  90%; 
Butler’s  Analogy,  95% ;  Sermon,  85%. 

T.  H.  Decker — Christian  Faith,  80%. 

J.  L.  Pellum — Manual  of  Ethics,  85% ;  New  Test.  Theol.,  95%'. 

Mrs.  R.  J.  Nash  has  completed  the  course.  We  recommend  that 
she  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Elders’  Orders. 

We  recommend  that  T.  H.  Decker  and  J.  L.  Pellum  be  continued 
in  the  course. 

W.  L.  Perkins, 

W.  R.  Muncie, 

J.  B.  Norviel, 

Committee. 

REPORT  OF  COM  MITTEE  ON  FIRST  YEARNS  COURSE  OF  READING. 

The  class  consists  of  R.  L.  Webber,  G.  W.  Padrick,  R.  B.  Hall, 
Elizabeth  Thompson,  W.  Beasely,  Otto  Cummins,  O.  W.  Albert, 
Mrs.  Ona  Albert,  I.  J.  Knapp. 


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The  following  persons  appeared  before  the  committee  during  the 
year  and  made  the  following  grades : 

Elizabeth  Thompson — Discipline,  100% ;  Etter  and  his  Sermons, 
80% ;  Church  History,  70% ;  Sermon,  80%. 

O.  W.  Albert — Pattison,  80%';  Foreign  Missionary,  86%;  Ency¬ 
clopedia  Handbook  of  Bible,  70%;  Sermon,  85%. 

Mrs.  Ona  Albert — Extemporaneous  Oratory,  84%';  Pattison, 
85%;  Church  History,  81%;  Sermon,  80%;  Foreign  Missionary, 
85%'. 

Robt.  L.  Webber — Church  History,  90%;  Preacher  and  Sermon, 
85% ;  Sell’s  Bible  Study,  90%. 

W.  Beasely — Extemporaneous  Oratory,  95% ;  Encyclopedia 
Handbook  of  Bible,  85%;  Foreign  Missionary,.  97%;  Pattison, 
84%';  Church  History,  90%;  Sermon,  90%. 

The  committee  makes  the  following  recommendations: 

1.  That  Elizabeth  Thompson  and  W.  Beasely  be  advanced  to 
the  Second  Year’s  Reading  Course,  having  completed  First  Year’s 
Course. 

2.  That  the  following  be  retained  in  the  First  Year’s  Course: 
O.  W.  Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  Albert,  Robt.  L.  Webber,  Otto  Cummins, 
R.  B.  Hall,  I.  J.  Knapp. 

H.  H.  Heberly, 

G.  L.  Stine, 

E.  Boley, 

Committee. 

F.  W.  Loy,  District  Superintendent  of  Anti-Saloon  League, 
was  introduced  to  the  Conference  and  made  a  few  remarks  upon 
the  great  cause  he  represents. 

The  following  report  was  approved,  upon  which  Doctor  Funk 
addressed  the  Conference: 

REPORT  ON  PUBLISHING  INTERESTS. 

The  religious  press  has  an  influence  unparalleled.  It  is  the 
mightiest  elevating  force  in  human  society.  In  this  the  dawning 
of  the  twentieth  century,  the  greatest  age  of  the  world’s  history, 
it  is  not  surprising,  that  even  monarchs  feel  its  supremacy,  and 
it  is  not  strange  that  even  emperors  speak  feelingly  of  the  manner 
in  which  the  religious  press  discusses  the  affairs  of  the  family. 
The  character  of  journalism  is  the  subject  of  considerable  inquiry 
and  it  is  recognized  by  many  that  its  reformation  is  the  first  con¬ 
dition  of  national  and  individual  purification.  The  religious 
journalists  are  among  the  chief  educators  of  the  people,  the  con¬ 
servators  of  morals,  the  leading  teachers  of  the  age;  they  speak 
on  all  topics  of  popular  interest  with  a  confidence  that  is  not 


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augmented  by  divine  authority.  The  social  reform  involves  the 
whole  of  society  as  the  deepest  and  broadest  reformatory  movement 
of  the  age,  but  without  the  religious  press  it  is  a  failure.  The 
elevation  of  the  press  is  recognized  as  a  problem  of  vital  import¬ 
ance,  and  also  of  stupendous  difficulty.  It  is  a  subject  worthy 
of  the  fullest  discussion  and  of  the  most  thorough  reformatory 
efforts.  Whoever  controls  the  press  virtually  controls  society,  the 
nation  and  the  world.  We  should  see  to  it  that  we  have  the 
religious  press.  Therefore,  feeling  that  we,  the  members  of  the 
Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  have  a  publishing  plant 
second  to  none,  and  the  general  manager  with  his  worthy  staff 
leading  us  to  victory, 

Resolve,  That  we  patronize  our  own  house,  and  encourage  others 
thus  to  do  in  obtaining  Sunday-school  literature,  mission  study 
books  and  all  other  reading  matter  which  we  may  obtain  from  the 
house.  Also  to  look  up,  lift  up  and  carry  forward  the  circulation 
of  our  Church  organs,  the  Telescope,  Watchword  and  Evangel. 

That  in  view  of  the  general  effort  being  made  to  increase  the 
circulation  of  the  .Religious  Telescope  throughout  the  Church, 
we,  the  members  of  the  Conference,  both  ministers  and  laymen,  also 
pledge  ourselves  to  push  the  circulation,  seeking  to  have  at  least 
one  subscription  to  every  eight  members  and  thus  bring  our  Con¬ 
ference  to  the  basis  of  35,000  circulation. 

E.  M.  Pierson, 

Committee. 

The  following  report  was  approved: 

BIBLE  CAUSE. 

There  is  no  book  that  has  exerted  such  wide  influence  upon  human 
society  as  the  Bible.  One  of  the  sacred  writers  compares  it  to 
light — “The  entrance  of  thy  Word  giveth  light.”  True,  the  Bible 
has  done  more  to  shed  light  in  the  dark  and  desolate  places  than 
all  other  literature  combined.  It  has  illuminated  the  places 
where  at  one  time  it  was  moral,  intellectual  and  spiritual  night 
and  darkness — the  means  by  which  nations  have  arisen  from  the 
deepest  degradation  to  highest  planes  of  civilization  and  Chris¬ 
tianization. 

In  our  own  land,  relative  to  our  own  civilization,  we  may  find 
some  most  striking  things  that  make  our  modern  civilization  what 
it  is.  What  makes  ours  different  from  the  civilization  of  other 
lands  where  they  have  not  the  Bible?  Why,  it  is  that  Bible  lands 
are  so  much  higher  in  the  plane  of  life  than  others.  It  is  because 
of  the  influence  of  the  Bible. 

Our  forefathers  were  not  only  God-loving,  but  Bible-loving  men. 
They  founded  this  government  upon  the  principles  of  the  Bible, 


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and  it  is  this  that  has  made  our  nation  what  it  is.  What  the 
Bible  has  done  for  us  as  a  people  and  as  a  nation  it  will  do  for 
others. 

We  already  see  its  influence  in  India  and  in  the  land  of  the 
Turks.  In  Japan  the  walls  of  prejudice  are  crumbling  down,  and 
they  are  crying  for  the  civilization  of  Bible  lands.  How  can  they 
have  it  without  the  Bible? 

May  it  continue  its  journey  until  even  unto  the  uttermost  parts 
of  the  earth  the  name  of  Christ  is  magnified  above  every  other 
name.  We  recognize  the  American  Bible  Society  as  one  of  the 
great  factors  in  the  work  of  the  Church. 

In  providing  men  with  God’s  Word,  we  bring  them  face  to  face 
with  the  power  of  God  unto  salvation.  Since  we  know  that  the 
Bible  is  indispensable  to  the  missionary  work  and  the  enlighten¬ 
ment  of  the  human  race,  we  appreciate  and  extol  the  work  of  the 
society  in  the  annual  distribution  of  the  thousands  of  copies  of 
the  Word  of  God  and  trust  that  all  men  may  soon  be  provided 
with  the  precious  Book. 

Resolved,  That  we,  as  ministers  and  teachers  of  the  Word,  en¬ 
deavor  to  impress  on  the  minds  of  our  people  the  need  of  a  more 
thorough  study  of  the  Bible. 

Resolved ,  That  our  committee  be  instructed  to  apportion  to  the 
various  charges  a  worthy  apportionment  for  the  Bible  cause. 

Humbly  submitted, 

D.  C.  Ade, 
Committee. 


Adjourned.  Benediction  by  J.  B.  Connett. 


THURSDAY  AFTERNOON— SECOND  DAY— 1 :  30  P.  M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  E.  E.  Bundy. 

Report  of  Committee  on  Church  Erection  was  approved,  as 
follows : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CHURCH  ERECTION. 

The  Church  Erection  Society,  in  its  aim  and  purpose,  is  one  of 
the  most  helpful  and  worthy  organizations  in  our  denomination. 
The  aim  and  purpose  of  the  society  is  to  assist  in  planting  the 
United  Brethren  Church  in  needy  fields  and  in  the  strategic 
centers  of  our  country. 

This  society,  in  cooperation  with  the  Home  Missionary  Society, 
has  given  to  our  beloved  Zion  many  strong  organizations  and  many 
splendid  church  buildings  of  which  we  are  justly  proud. 


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Knowing  that  the  future  work  of  our  Church  for  the  most  part 
must  he  in  the  city,  and  realizing  that  to  build  churches  that  will 
command  the  respect  of  the  people,  and  at  the  same  time  be  cred¬ 
itable  to  us,  we  must  spend  considerable  money,  more,  often,  than 
the  people  can  sometimes  command,  making  it  necessary  to  have 
assistance,  the  Church  Erection  Society  in  its  purpose  extends 
the  helping  hand  to  such  wTorthy  enterprises.  Surely  such  a  society 
should  have  the  heartiest  support  of  every  loyal  United  Brethren. 
Indeed,  every  conference,  every  minister  and  every  layman  should 
assist  in  making  the  funds  much  larger  in  order  that  the  society 
might  be  able  to  do  greater  things. 

It  is,  however,  important  that  the  society  be  so  managed  that  it 
may  be  as  easy  as  possible  for  struggling  churches  to  get  assistance, 
consistent  with  proper  protection  for  the  society.  And  in  order 
that  all  conferences  may  be  in  perfect  accord  with  the  society  the 
General  Board  should  be  careful  in  making  loans  to  conferences 
to  see  that  some  do  not  get  the  lion’s  share  while  others  go  begging. 

We,  as  a  Conference,  therefore  respectfully  request:  First. 
That  the  General  Board  remove  from  their  application  blanks  the 
stipulation  making  it  necessary  for  Conference  boards  to  sign  over 
to  the  General  Society  the  Conference  Grant  Fund  equal  to  the 
amount  of  the  loan,  to  be  held  by  the  General  Society  during  the 
life  of  the  loan,  thus  tieing  up  money  belonging  to  conferences  and 
hindering  them  in  their  advancement,  while  the  General  Society 
loans  the  Grant  Fund  at  two  per  cent,  and  draws  two  per  cent,  on 
its  loans.  We  make  this  request  because  we  believe  it  is  wrong 
and  because  we  believe  mortgaged  security  is  ample  protection. 

Second.  We  respectfully  request  the  General  Board  and  its 
Secretary  to  give  Lower  Wabash  Conference  recognition  equal  to 
that  of  other  conferences  in  the  matter  of  assistance  in  harmony 
with  the  relative  needs  of  the  whole  field,  not  only  because  it  is 
just  and  right,  but  because  we  desire  the  ministers  and  laymen 
of  the  Conference  to  be  in  the  fullest  sympathy  with  the  society 
in  all  its  wrork.  With  faith  that  this  will  be  done,  we  therefore 

Resolve ,  1.  That  we  will  renew  our  allegiance  to  the  society 

pledging  to  it  our  sympathy -and  support. 

2.  We  will  present  the  interests  of  the  society  to  our  people  and 
earnestly  endeavor  to  enlist  their  interest  in  the  same. 

3.  We,  as  pastors,  will  take  the  Easter  offering  at  every  church 

on  our  charges  and  will  undertake  to  make  the  offering  as  large 
as  possible.  Respectfully, 

F.  H.  King. 

L.  O.  Miller,  General  Church  Treasurer,  then  spoke  to  the  paper 
very  earnestly,  as  did  others. 


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The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  was  read, 
as  follows: 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CONFERENCE  RELATIONS. 

The  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  met  and  beg  to  submit 
the  following  report: 

1.  A.  J.  Olmsted  presented  credentials  from  the  Missionary 
Baptist  Church.  We  find  them  in  harmony  with  the  Church  in 
doctrine  and  usages,  and  therefore  recommend  that  he  be  received 
as  a  regular  ordained  minister. 

2.  H.  A.  Lehwald  also  appeared  before  committee  and  presented 
credentials  from  the  Union  Mission  Association.  We  also  find 
him  in  harmony  with  the  Church  in  its  doctrines  and  usages,  and 
we  recommend  that  he  be  received  as  a  regular  ordained  minister. 

3.  In  the  case  of  J.  P.  Watson,  we  have  carefully  gone  over 
the  ground,  and  we  recommend  that  he  place  himself  in  harmony 
with  our  Church  in  order  to  retain  his  relation  with  the  Con¬ 
ference. 

4.  We  recommend  that  in  the  case  of  H.  D.  Bourne,  E.  R. 
Johns  and  G.  W.  McMahel,  they  be  requested  by  their  presiding 
elder  to  report  to  Conference  next  year,  or  show  cause  why  they 
should  not  be  referred  back  to  their  quarterly  conferences. 

5.  In  reference  to  W.  H.  Elliott  and  wife,  A.  Shidler,  J.  F. 
Edmundson,  J.  W.  Brush,  we  recommend  that  owing  to  their  per¬ 
manent  non-residence,  the  Conference  secretary  be  instructed  to 
write  them  relative  to  the  advisability  of  transferring  their  mem¬ 
bership. 

D.  C.  Ade, 

W.  C.  Harbert, 

H.  H.  Heberly, 

Committee. 

Upon  the  statement  of  J.  E.  Edmundson  that  he,  A.  Shidler  and 
J.  W.  Brush,  while  they  would  prefer  to  remain  in  this  Conference, 
yet  they  would  be  willing  to  receive  transfers  to  Indiana  Confer¬ 
ence,  the  paper  was  so  amended,  by  motion,  as  to  give  said  trans¬ 
fers.  The  report  as  thus  amended  was  adopted. 

W.  M.  Hall,  by  request,  was  granted  an  open  transfer. 

Report  of  Committee  on  Home  Missions  was  read  and  approved, 
as  follows: 


REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  HOME  MISSIONS. 

At  the  beginning  of  the  year  the  committee  planned  for  a  home 
mission  rally  in  each  of  the  three  presiding  elders’  districts.  Ac- 


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cordingly  these  were  held  at  Olney,  Westfield  and  Danville,  re¬ 
spectively.  Rev.  H.  H.  Font,  D.D.,  gave  the  evening  address  at 
each  of  these,  which  added  very  much  to  the  success  of  this  original 
plan  for  increased  interest  in  home  missions.  Soon  after  these 
rallies,  in  cooperation  with  our  General  Secretary,  Dr.  C.  Whitney, 
a  personal  letter  was  sent  to  the  local  committee  of  each  charge, 
which  contained  words  of  encouragement  and  suggestions  of  pro- 
ceedure.  This  was  repeated  until  the  third  letter  had  been  sent. 
It  has  been  the  prayer  of  the  committee  that  each  pastor  might  feel 
the  responsibility  and  catch  a  vision  of  his  possibilities  in  leading 
the  people  to  a  realization  of  the  present  needs  and  to  enlarged 
giving.  We  sincerely  hope  that  the  Home  Missionary  Society 
now  in  its  formulative  period  may  have  the  hearty  cooperation  of 
all  the  Sabbath  schools  in  the  Conference.  We  think  the  plan  of 
enlisting  the  Sabbath  schools  in  home  missionary  work  a  good 
one,  and  desire  that  the  disciplinary  requirement  of  offerings — at 
least  quarterly — shall  be  thoroughly  effected.  Also  that  the  six 
months,  so  designated  by  Discipline,  may  be  observed  by  every 
local  church  as  home  mission  months,  and  that  every  pastor  thus 
supported  by  the  law  of  the  Church  shall  proceed  to  educate  and 
indoctrinate  his  people  in  the  grace  of  giving,  that  the  Master’s 
way  of  evangelism — beginning  at  Jerusalem  and  in  all  Judea — 
may  be  our  way. 

We  deplore  the  lack  of  interest  in  home  mission  work  of  past 
years,  so  evident  from  the  vast  districts  of  country  and  large  cities 
in  which  United  Brethrenism  is  unknown.  We  have  only  to  com¬ 
pare  our  numbers  with  other  denominations  of  equal  years  to 
discover  our  weakness  in  this  one  line.  All  things  considered,  how¬ 
ever,  our  fathers  have  wrought  well  and  have  bequeathed  to  us  a 
denomination  of  which  we  are  justly  proud.  But  we  are  not 
satisfied  to  remain  so  far  removed  from  the  most  needy  classes  in 
America,  the  unchurched  multitudes  in  cities  and  the  fast  mul¬ 
tiplying  thousands  of  the  frontier. 

We  wish,  as  a  committee,  to  add  that  we  are  especially  indebted 
to  Dr.  H.  H.  Fout  for  his  timely  addresses  in  the  rallies  mentioned. 
And  to  Doctor  Whitney  for  his  advice  and  cooperation  in  what  has 
been  done.  Also  that  we  heartily  indorse  his  passion  for  this 
cause  and  solicit  the  support  of  the  entire  Conference  in  assisting 
to  carry  out  his  plans  for  the  quadrennium. 

W.  L.  Perkins, 

G.  L.  Stine, 

Cloyd  Rose, 

Committee. 

On  motion,  J.  B.  Norviel  and  J.  B.  Connett  were  instructed  to 
negotiate  concerning  the  advisability  of  the  Conference  visiting 

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the  Township  High  School  of  this  city,  the  principal  of  said 
school  urgently  requesting  such  visit. 

J.  B.  Connett,  J.  C.  Fowler  and  G.  W.  Bonebrake  were  made  a 
committee  to  consider  the  advisability  of  the  Conference  making 
the  quarterly  bulletin  a  Conference  organ. 

By  motion  the  Conference  Church  and  Parsonage  Building 
Association  secretary  of  the  coming  year  is  instructed  to  look  after 

the  Milford  Church  property  and  take  proper  steps  to  transfer  the 

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note  and  mortgage  of  said  church  to  our  own  Conference  Church 
Erection  treasurer. 

It  was  decided  to  hold  the  next  Conference  at  the  First  United 
Brethren  Church  of  Danville,  Ill. 

The  publishing  of  the  minutes  was  committed  to  the  recording 
secretary  and  the  presiding  elder. 

By  motion  it  was  agreed  that  the  missionary  contributions,  as 
heretofore  published  in  the  minutes,  would  no  longer  be  published 
at  all  after  this  year. 

On  motion  by  Mrs.  B.  J.  Hash,  Dr.  W.  B.  Funk  was  asked  to 
carry  greetings  to  the  East  Ohio  Conference  whither  he  goes  to¬ 
night. 

The  Committee  on  Second  Year’s  Beading  Course  reported 
that  there  are  no  members  in  said  course  this  year;  hence  there 
are  no  recommendations. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

B.  Griffin, 

Committee. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  Bishop  Bell. 


FBIDAY  MORNING— THIRD  DAY— 8:00  A.  M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  O.  J.  Bogard. 

After  roll  call  the  proceedings  of  yesterday  were  approved. 

The  Committee  on  Visit  to  High  School  reports  that  the 
President  of  the  City  Board  of  Education  would  furnish  automo¬ 
biles  sufficient  to  convey  the  Conference  members  to  the  High 
School  at  1 :  00  p.m. 

The  motion  to  accept  the  invitation  prevailed  unanimously. 

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Here  thirty-four  pastors’  reports  were  examined,  eighteen  having 
been  examined  yesterday. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Temperance  was  read  and  ap¬ 
proved,  as  follows: 

TEMPERANCE. 

The  temperance  advocate  should  have  as  his  ideal  subject  one 
endowed  with  equipments  of  the  best  citizenship.  The  church  and 
State  are  asking  and  demanding  men  and  women  of  the  most 
sterling  character  to  man  the  interests  of  God  on  earth.  To  win 
men  from  unhallowed  and  sordid  conditions  is  the  duty  of  every 
Christian  patriot.  To  go  among  even  the  lowly  and  fallen  with 
kind  words,  which  can  never  die,  and  pray  Jehovah,  whose  ear  is 
ever  attentive  and  grace  abundant  toward  all,  is  the  high  privilege 
of  the  humble  followers  of  our  Christ. 

The  paths  in  which  many  are  wandering  without  purpose  are 
too  numerous  to  mention.  The  greatest  destroyer  of  human  happi¬ 
ness  and  life,  and  under  whose  banner  most  march,  is  alcohol,  used 
as  a  beverage.  It  is  estimated  that  not  less  than  100,000  men  and 
women  sink  into  drunkards’  graves  annually  in  the  United  States, 
a  larger  army  than  Sherman  marched  to  the  sea.  While  this  great 
body  was  being  buried  by  the  grave  diggers,  the  saloons  scattered 
at  the  cross-roads,  the  county  towns  and  capital  cities,  furnished 
with  splendid  music  and  beautiful  pictures,  were  tempting  5,000,- 
000  boys  and  young  men  to  fall  in  line  as  recruits  to  fill  the  places 
of  the  fallen  at  the  bar. 

Friends,  shall  we  hesitate  a  moment?  100,000  dead  drunkards, 
homes,  wives  and  children,  poverty,  suicides,  murders,  property 
lost,  gallows.  This  catalogue  of  present  conditions  is  enough  to 
melt  a  hear  of  adamant.  What  do  the  whisky  leaguers  say  ?  They 
speak  philosophically:  “The  business  is  encouraging  and  the  re¬ 
ports  at  the  close  of  the  fiscal  year  show  the  quantity  and  sales  in 
excess  of  any  previous  year.” 

The  right  of  king  alcohol  to  rule  is  questioned  and  denied. 
More  than  seventy-five  years  ago  philanthropists  said  to  the  pro¬ 
slavery  party,  “You  shall  not  rule  the  U.  S.,”  but  a  sharp  contest 
of  five  years  settled  the  matter. 

A  greater  question  is  at  the  door  for  adjustment  to-day.  The 
traffic  in  human  lives,  though  more  far-reaching  than  slavery, 
can  be  settled  by  prohibition  of  its  sale,  being  the  shorter  and  most 
feasible. 

The  saloon  must  go.  Our  fathers  made  the  declaration  a  century 
ago,  and  their  sons  and  grandsons  renew  the  declaration  empha¬ 
sized.  The  end  is  not  yet.  The  enemies’  banners  are  still  in  the 
air  unfurled  in  the  faces  of  a  protesting  people. 


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Temperance  people  uniting  in  the  contest  independent  of  party 
lines  are  giving  a  hopeful  aspect  as  to  the  final  result.  Prohibition 
should  join  hands  with  local  option  and  there  should  no  differences 
obtain.  A  division  of  forces  can  but  delay  the  hour  of  victory. 
Let  the  best  men  be  placed  in  the  State  Legislatures  who  will  not 
hesitate  to  revise  or  make  new  constitutions,  and  push  special  bills 
for  the  advancement  of  local  option.  Our  ecclesiastic  bodies,  with 
brave  and  true  leaders,  are  directing  their  millions  of  communi¬ 
cants  in  the  great  battle.  The  Sunday  schools  with  their  teachers, 
teaching  four  temperance  lessons  each  year,  are  turning  into  the 
voting  precincts  on  election  day  in  each  quadrennium  six  hundred 
thousand  to  vote,  almost  without  a  dissent,  for  world-wide  local 
option.  W.  R.  Shuey, 

Committee. 

By  motion  the  pastors  are  required  to  hand  in  their  reports 
hereafter  on  the  first  day  of  the  Conference  sessions. 

The  Boundary  Committee  made  the  following  partial  report, 
namely:  That  there  be  three  presiding  elders’  districts.  The  Lay 
Delegates’  Conference  immediately  offered  an  amendment  to  the 
effect  that  there  be  but  one  district,  and  the  presiding  elder  thereof 
receive  $1,500  and  pay  his  own  expenses.  The  amendment  pre¬ 
vailed.  The  partial  report  as  amended  then  passed. 

D.  R.  Seneff  was  then  elected  presiding  elder.  The  election  was 
then  declared  unanimous. 

Bv  motion,  H.  A.  Lehwald  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Conference  Relations  for  evangelistic  relations. 

The  following  reports  were  adopted: 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  OX  ELDERS’  ORDERS. 

Sister  R.  J.  Nash  appeared  before  the  committee  (having  com¬ 
pleted  the  prescribed  course  of  reading)  and  gave  evidence  of  being 
sound  in  doctrine  and  in  harmony  with  the  requirements  of  the 
Discipline.  We  therefore  recommend  that  she  be  ordained. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 
W.  L.  Duncan, 
Robert  Griffin, 

Committee. 

CONSTITUTION  OF  THE  CHURCH  AND  PARSONAGE  BUILDING  ASSOCIATION. 

Article  I. — Name. 

This  Association,  organized  at  Robinson,  Ill.,  on  the  eighth  day 
of  September,  A.  D.  1910,  shall  be  known  as  the  Church  and  Par- 

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sonage  Building  Association  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference  of  the 
Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  and  shall  be  the  legal 
successor  of  the  Church  Erection  Society  of  Lower  Wabash  Con¬ 
ference  of  the  Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  organized 
at  Paris,  Ill.,  September  24,  A.  I).  1890,  and  chartered  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  of  Illinois,  September  22,  A.  I).  1891. 

Article  II . — Object . 

The  object  of  this  Association  shall  be  to  build  and  repair,  and 
aid  in  building  and  repairing,  United  Brethren  churches  and 
parsonages  within  the  bounds  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference. 

Article  I II. — M emb ersh  ip . 

Every  person  who  is,  or  hereafter  becomes,  a  member  of  Lower 
Wabash  Conference  shall  be  a  member  of  this  Association. 

Article  IV. — Officers ,  Their  Duties. 

1.  The  officers  of  this  Association  shall  consist  of  a  board  of 
trustees  comprising  three  members,  to  be  elected  annually  in  such 
manner  as  the  Association  may,  from  time  to  time,  determine;  one 
as  president,  one  as  secretary  and  one  as  treasurer.  The  presiding 
elder  shall  be  a  member  ex-officio  of  this  board. 

2.  The  president  and  secretary  shall  perform  the  duties  usually 
pertaining  to  these  offices,  and  shall  execute  all  legal  instruments 
of  the  Association. 

»3.  Between  the  annual  meetings  of  the  Association  the  trustees 
shall  transact  all  business  of  the  Association,  and  shall  meet  on 
call  of  the  president. 

4.  The  treasurer  shall  be  the  custodian  of  all  the  funds  of  the 
Association,  and  shall  pay  them  out  on  the  order  of  the  trustees. 
He  shall  make  an  annual  report  to  the  Association,  showing  by 
items,  receipts,  disbursements,  money  on  hand  and  assets.  These 
reports  shall  be  audited  by  the  Auditing  Committee  of  the  Con¬ 
ference. 

Article  V. — Funds. 

1.  All  moneys,  properties  and  credits  now  possessed,  or  here¬ 
after  acquired,  for  purposes  heretofore  known  as  Church  Erection 
Funds,  shall  be  henceforth  known  as  Church  and  Parsonage  Build¬ 
ing  Funds,  and  shall  be  used  for  the  purpose  of  acquiring  real 
estate  for  church  and  parsonage  purposes,  and  for  building  and 
repairing  and  aiding  in  building  and  repairing  church  and  par¬ 
sonage  property. 

2.  For  the  support  of  this  fund  an  assessment  may  be  laid 
annually  upon  the  Conference,  to  be  collected  by  the  pastors.  Said 
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church  extension  purposes,  or  separately.  In  case  of  the  former, 
it  shall  be  determined  at  the  time  of  making  the  assessment,  what 
percentage  shall  go  to  each  fund. 

3.  The  Association,  or  its  trustees,  may,  from  time  to  time, 
adopt  such  additional  methods  for  raising  funds  as  they  may  deem 
advisable;  they  may  employ  agents,  enlist  the  cooperation  of 
Sunday  schools,  Ladies’  Aid  societies,  Adult  Bible  classes,  W.  M. 
A.  and  Y.  P.  0.  E.  17.  societies,  etc.,  etc. 

Article  YI. — Building  and  Improvement  Enterprises. 

The  board  of  trustees  may,  of  their  own  motion,  inaugurate 
church  building  enterprises  and  sustain  the  same  wholly  with  the 
funds  of  the  Association  and  such  aid  as  they  may  be  able  to 
secure,  in  which  case  the  property  thus  acquired  shall  be  deeded 
to  the  Association’s  trustees  and  their  successors  in  office,  in  trust 
for  the  Association;  and  may  be  sold,  or  otherwise  disposed  of,  at 
the  discretion  of  the  Association  or  its  trustees. 

Article  VII. — Loans. 

The  trustees  may,  upon  the  solicitation  of  a  presiding  elder, 
preacher  or  board  of  church  trustees,  inquire  into  the  advisability 
of  aiding  in  building  or  repairing  a  church  or  parsonage;  and,  if 
deemed  advisable,  may  so  aid,  provided  that  all  funds  so  appro¬ 
priated  shall  be  by  loan  to  a  board  of  trustees,  constituted  accord¬ 
ing  to  the  requirements  of  the  Discipline  of  the  Church  of  the 
United  Brethren  in  Christ.  Loans  shall  be  made  without  interest, 
and  for  such  time  as  the  trustees  may,  in  each  case,  determine. 
All  loans  shall  be  secured  by  first  mortgage  on  the  property  for  the 
building  or  repairing  of  which  aid  is  given. 

Article  VIII. — Annual  Meeting. 

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Association  shall  be  presided  over  by 
the  presiding  bishop  of  the  Conference,  and  the  business  transacted 
shall  be  entered  by  the  secretary  of  the  Conference  as  Conference 
business. 


Article  IX. — Expenses. 

All  expenses  incurred  by  the  trustees  in  the  discharge  of  their 
duties,  such  as  traveling  expenses,  stationery,  postage,  printing, 
etc.,  may  be  paid  out  of  the  Association’s  funds. 

A  rticle  X. — A  me  n  dmen  ts. 

The  foregoing  constitution  may  be  changed  or  amended  at  any 
annual  meeting  of  the  Association,  a  majority  of  the  members 
present  concurring. 


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Article  XI. 

A  majority  of  the  members  present  at  any  meeting  of  this  Asso¬ 
ciation  shall  constitute  a  quorum. 


FRIDAY  AFTERNOON— THIRD  DAY— 1:30  P.  M. 

Owing  to  the  1:00  p.m.  visit  of  the  Conference  to  the  Town¬ 
ship  High  School  in  Robinson,  the  Conference  convened  at  2 :  30 

p.m. 

Devotion  consisted  of  prayer  by  Bishop  Bell. 

The  following  report  was  read  and  approved: 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  Y.  P.  S.  C.  U. 

“I  write  unto  you,  young  people,  because  ye  are  strong  and  the 
Word  of  God  abideth  in  you  and  ye  have  overcome  the  wicked 
one.” 

These  were  the  words  of  John  and  implied  no  flattery.  Its  truth 
is  felt  to-day.  The  strength  of  the  church  is  in  its  young  people 
who  are  strong  physically,  mentally  and  spiritually — the  time  when 
faith,  hope,  love,  conviction,  purpose,  ambition  are  at  their  zenith. 

Whence  the  training,  for  strength  is  no  gift,  but  the  results  of 
gifts  properly  utilized  and  trained.  We  turn  to  the  Young  People’s 
Society  as  the  best  training  camp.  To  it  we  look  for  church 
leaders  for  every  department,  and  have  a  right  to,  for  if  a  society 
is  not  conducted  for  the  growth  and  development  of  its  members 
it  has  no  right  to  exist. 

Our  Conference  Branch  Society  has  proven  its  right  to  existence 
by  the  splendid  young  men  and  women  it  is  constantly  training  for 
prominent  work  in  the  Conference  and  Church  in  general. 

Spiritual  training  has  been  its  highest  aim,  and,  as  a  result,  a 
large  proportion  of  the  converts  reported  by  the  pastors  were 
reached  through  organized  work  of  the  young  people. 

The  financial  must  keep  pace  with  the  spiritual  and  one  is  a 
good  thermometer  to  test  the  other.  Increased  vision  has  had  the 
result  of  a  larger  interest  in  missions  than  ever  displayed  before. 
Four  hundred  dollars  were  pledged  and  paid  to  the  Lawrenceville 
Home  Mission  Enterprise  last  year  and  renewed  this  year  with  an 
extra  two  hundred  dollars  to  the  Danville  enterprise.  We  regret 
that  only  forty  dollars  were  paid  to  foreign  missions,  but  feel  sure 
that  with  the  vision  of  Christ’s  equal  love  for  the  unreached 
millions  in  other  portions  of  his  vineyard  increased  offerings  for 
the  foreign  work  this  year  will  be  emphasized  or  bring  a  note  of 
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Resolved ,  1.  That  we  heartily  commend  and  cooperate  with  the 
present  management  of  our  Branch  Christian  Endeavor. 

2.  That  we  assist  our  local  societies  in  carrying  out  its  standard 
placed  by  the  recent  convention,  a  mission  study  class  in  home  and 
foreign  work  in  every  society  with  the  aim  ‘‘information,  then  in¬ 
spiration.” 

3.  That  we  renew  our  allegiance  to  Westfield  College  and  the 
plans  of  the  president,  Dr.  B.  F.  Daugherty,  and  also  pledge  our 
support  to  the  educational  secretary,  Rev.  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  in 
his  effort  to  have  a  college  committee  in  each  society. 

4.  That  wherever  possible  the  local  societies  appoint  an  Evan¬ 
gelistic  Committee  to  work  in  conjunction  with  pastor  or  evan¬ 
gelist  in  reaching  the  young  people  of  the  respective  communities. 

H.  H.  Heberly, 

Committee. 

Prof.  M.  A.  Honline,  Director  of  Religious  Work  under  the 
Board  of  Control,  made  some  interesting  remarks.  Because  of 
lack  of  time,  Professor  Honline  w^as  granted  a  part  of  the  time 
in  the  night’s  service.  The  following  resolutions  were  read  and 
approved : 


THE  CONFERENCE  VISIT. 

We,  the  members  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference,  hereby  desire 
to  express  our  sincere  appreciation  for  the  privilege  of  visiting 
the  Robinson  Township  High  School,  meeting  its  teachers  and 
students,  looking  through  its  magnificent  building,  and  enjoying 
an  hour  of  most  delightful  fellowship  in  the  chapel  of  this  school. 

We  greatly  appreciate  the  courtesy  of  Professor  Marbury  in 
inviting  us  to  visit  them,  and  of  the  business  men  in  conveying  us 
to  and  from  the  school  in  their  automobiles. 

B.  F.  Daugherty, 

L.  H.  Cooley. 


THE  POLITICAL  STATUS. 

We  greatly  deplore  the  corrupt  conditions  in  our  State  politics 
and  the  scandalous  rumors  of  bribery  in  connection  with  the 
election  of  United  States  Senator  Wm.  Lorimer.  Whether  Mr. 
Lorimer  had  knowledge  or  not  of  the  plans  and  methods  of  the 
bi-partisian  combinations  of  the  accused  bribers,  we  believe  that 
the  high  honor  of  the  body  of  which  he  was  a  member  demanded 
that  he  at  once  resign  his  position  until  he  is  freed  from  the 
serious  and  scandalous  charge,  especially  with  the  deep-seated 
conviction  on  the  part  of  the  citizenship  of  the  State  that  the 
charges  are  true. 


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But  we  rejoice  in  the  growing  sentiment  against  corruption  in 
political  life  of  the  State,  and  urge  the  citizenship  of  our  own 
Church  to  vote  at  the  coming  primaries  for  such  men  only  whose 
character  and  purity  of  motives  for  the  good  of  the  State  are 
unchallenged. 

We  also  rejoice  in  the  courage  and  manhood  of  our  inimitable 
Theodore  Roosevelt,  who  declined  to  sit  at  the  same  table  at  tin* 
Hamilton  Club’s  dinner  with  Senator  Lorimer. 

We  also  unanimously  pledge  ourselves  to  vote  only  for  men  for 
the  Legislature  who  are  pledged  to  stand  for  the  enactment  of  a 
county  local  option  law,  so  as  to  make  it  as  easy  as  possible  for 
men  to  do  right  and  as  difficult  as  possible  for  them  to  do  wrong. 

We  further  put  ourselves  on  record  as  favoring  a  national  law 
preventing  the  shipment  of  intoxicating  liquors  into  dry  territory, 
and  that  we  ask  of  the  Congressmen  in  our  respective  districts 
to  vote  for  such  a  law.  B.  F.  Daugherty. 


STANDING  RESOLUTION  ON  TRUSTEE  ELECTIONS. 

Resolved ,  That  for  the  purpose  of  electing  trustees  of  Westfield 
College,  trustees  of  the  Conference  Church  Extension  Society  and 
Conference  trustees,  there  shall  be  appointed  annually,  among 
standing  committees,  three  persons,  one  of  whom  shall  be  the  presi¬ 
dent  of  Westfield  College,  whose  duty  it  shall  be  to  nominate  twice 
as  many  persons  for  each  of  said  offices  as  the  number  to  be  elected. 
They  shall  prepare  a  printed  sheet  ballot,  grouping  the  nominees  and 
designating  how  many  are  to  be  voted  for  in  each  group ;  and,  in 
the  case  of  Church  Extension  Society  trustees,  they  shall  designate 
two  each  for  president,  secretary  and  treasurer.  In  each  case  a 
majority  of  the  votes  cast  shall  be  necessary  to  an  election.  Said 
committee  shall  appoint  a  board  of  tellers  who  shall  canvass  and 
report  the  votes. 

The  committee  for  this  year  was  made  to  consist  of  B.  F. 
Daugherty,  W.  L.  Duncan,  J.  B.  Connett. 

The  following  reports  were  approved : 


REPORT  OF  G.  W.  BONEBRAlvE,  CHURCH  ERECTION  TREASURER. 


Receipts. 

Aug.  20,  1909.  Received  of  former  treasurer .  $411  17 

Sept.  20,  1909.  From  E.  M.  Pierson,  loan  on  St.  Fran- 

cisville  Church  .  1,000  00 

June  1,  1910.  Parkville  loan  .  200  00 

June  15,  1910.  Sale  of  West  Terre  Haute  lot .  375  00 


Total 


$1,986  17 


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Disbursements. 

Sept.  13,  1909.  Loaned  Lawrenceville  .  $1,000  00 

Sept.  13,  1909.  Expense  to  Lawrenceville .  479 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Expense  to  Newman .  1  91 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Paid  building  and  loan  for  church  at 

Newman  .  201  49 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Insurance  on  Newman  Church .  16  00 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Light  bill,  Newman  Church .  19  50 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Notary  public  work .  50 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Recording  work  .  1  00 

Nov.  5,  1909.  Paid  D.  R.  Seneff,  traveling  expenses 

to  Lexington,  Ill .  4  40 

Nov.  19,  1909.  J.  B.  Connett,  same .  5  50 

Apr.  5,  1910.  Paving  Newman  lot .  37  24 

June  15,  1910.  Abstract  on  West  Terre  Haute  lot .  2  50 

June  15,  1910.  Paid  to  J.  C.  Fowler,  car  fare  to  Terre 

Haute  .  2  30 

July  15,  1910.  To  J.  W.  Gilley,  treasurer  of  Southern 

Indiana  Conference  .  103  66 


Total .  $1,400  79 

Balance  cash  in  treasury .  $585  38 

Assets  of  Society. 

Newman  Church  property .  $400  00 

Mortgage  on  Milford  Church .  400  00 

Lawrenceville  mortgage  .  1,000  00 

Unpaid  loan  on  Flora  Church .  50  00 

Terre  Haute  Third  Church,  loan .  200  00 

Due  from  Northern  Illinois  Conference .  257  68 

Due  from  White  River  Conference .  16  28 

Invested  in  tent .  180  00 

Cash . • .  585  38 


Total .  $3,089  34 

Liabilities. 

Owe  White  River  Conference  according  to  division.  ..  .  $375  00 

And  turn  over  note  and  mortgage  on  Third  Church  of.  .  200  00 

Total .  $575  00 

Minus  $4.80  expense  account,  leaving .  $570  20 

Total  assets  .  $3,089  34 

Total  liabilities  .  570  20 


Balance  in  cash,  notes  and  mortgages .  $2,519  14 

G.  W.  Boxebrake, 

»  Treasurer. 

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W.  M.  A.  GREETINGS. 

To  the  Ministers  and  Delegates  of  the  Fifty-third  Annual  Session 
of  the  Lower  Wabash  Annual  Conference. 

I  bear  greetings  of  the  Woman’s  '  Missionary  Association  of 
Lower  Wabash  Branch. 

We,  as  an  organization,  are  glad  to  have  a  part  in  the  evangeliza¬ 
tion  of  the  millions,  both  home  and  abroad.  The  ladies  of  the 
Woman’s  Missionary  Association  of  Lower  Wabash  Branch  thank 
the  presiding  elders  and  pastors  who  have  helped  us  in  the  past 
in  attending  our  branch  meetings  and  organizing  new  locals  on 
their  fields. 

One  minister  last  year  organized  two  new  locals  on  his  charge. 
We  appreciate  the  fact  that  our  ministers  are  very  busy  men,  but 
we  urge  the  hearty  cooperation  of  all  in  the  missionary  work.  No 
pastor  can  afford  to  let  his  women  go  unorganized,  for  definite 
united  work  for  missions  will  create  an  interest  among  the  dis¬ 
interested  and  accomplish  better  results  than  any  other  organiza¬ 
tion  among  the  women. 

Following  in  the  wake  of  the  present  missionary  uprising,  every 
church  should  plan  for  a  thorough  educational  campaign.  We 
recognize  the  pastor  as  a  path  finder  and  leader  who  must  be  pos¬ 
sessed  with  a  missionary  passion.  We  recognize  also  the  absolute 
need  of  a  live  missionary  committee  in  each  local  church  to  interest 
and  enlist  the  entire  membership  in  the  work  of  both  home  and 
foreign  missions. 

The  plan  of  the  woman’s  board,  as  ratified  by  the  General  Con¬ 
ference  last  year,  was  for  this  quadrennium  to  give  $2,000  the  first 
year,  $3,000  the  second  year,  $4,000  the  third  year  and  $5,000  the 
fourth  year,  and  forty  per  cent,  of  the  net  general  fund  to  the 
home  missions.  This  should  inspire  our  ministers  to  greater 
effort  in  organizing  our  women  for  mission  work,  as  it  brings  so 
much  of  the  funds  into  our  own  United  States.  Since  we  are 
undertaking  to  do  a  new  thing  (helping  in  the  foreign  field  and 
in  the  home  field),  we,  as  an  organization,  desire  to  begin  from 
day  to  day  to  do  business  for  our  King  in  a  new  way.  So  instead 
of  divers  ways  of  raising  money,  we  are  seeking  diligently  to  have 
adopted  in  all  our  locals  the  one  way  of  bringing  all  our  tithes 
into  the  store-house  that  there  may  be  no  gathering  when  He 
shall  come.  Since  the  General  Conference  has  given  us  the 
young  women  and  the  children  of  the  Church  to  train  for  mis¬ 
sions,  we  ask  all  our  ministers  in  the  Conference  to  give  us 
encouragement  in  this  work  in  enlisting  the  women  and  children 
in  the  interests  of  missions. 

The  coming  generation  will  furnish  stronger  men  and  women 
for  the  Church  than  we  have  to-day.  It  is  the  plan  of  the  board 


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for  the  monthly  missionary  offering  of  the  Junior  Society  to  aid 
in  the  support  of  the  Foundling  Home,  and  in  the  education  of 
the  German  children  in  Chicago. 

Through  the  efforts  of  our  board  organizer,  Lizzie  Sheets,  we 
have  had  quite  an  increase  in  locals,  membership  and  Evangel 
subscriptions  during  the  last  year.  Our  branch  has  pledged,  for  the 
coming  year,  seven  hundred  dollars  to  aid  the  general  organizations 
to  help  the  Church  in  reaching  its  five  million  souls.  The  Woman’s 
Missionary  Association  is  informing  itself  constantly  of  the  needs 
of  the  fields,  and  how  to  best  meet  those  needs;  so  belonging  to  the 
association,  and  attending  the  meetings  is  an  education  to  any 
woman.  Information  brings  inspiration.  We  regard  the  study 
of  missions  as  an  essential  part  of  the  religious  education  of  our 
people. 

Again,  brethren,  we,  as  the  Woman’s  Missionary  Association, 
wish  to  thank  you  for  what  you  have  done,  and  turn  to  you  again 
and  plead  your  most  earnest  prayers  and  sympathy  in  order  that 
we  may  do  our  part  in  the  ushering  in  of  that  glad  day  when 
Christ  alone  shall  rule. 

Mrs.  TI.  W.  Broadstone  and  H.  H.  Heberly  were  chosen  to  bear 
greetings  to  the  next  meeting  of  the  Branch  Woman’s  Missionary 
Association. 

On  motion  the  Conference  Board  of  Trustees  was  instructed  to 
pay  to  the  trustees  of  Toledo  Church  the  $20.00  held  by  said 
Conference  Board  as  a  result  of  the  sale  of  Hopewell  Church,  and 
that  the  balance  of  money  and  notes  held  by  the  board  be  turned 
over  to  the  treasurer  of  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Asso¬ 
ciation  to  be  used  by  the  society  in  its  work. 

To  Lower  Wabash  Conference.  This  is  to  certify  that  at  the 
third  quarterly  conference  of  Vermilion  Circuit,  held  in  Vermil¬ 
ion,  Ill.,  May  28,  1910,  the  Board  of  Trustees  of  Hew  Hope 
Church  was  dissolved  and  their  seats  declared  vacant,  and  by 
action  of  said  conference  the  property  was  turned  over  to  the 
Conference  Board  of  Trustees  to  make  such  disposition  of  as 
may  be  determined  by  the  annual  conference.  I  therefore  recom¬ 
mend  that  the  Conference  Board  proceed  to  sell  said  property,  turn 
the  proceeds  of  sale  of  said  property,  less  the  expenses  of  said  sale, 
to  the  treasury  of  the  Church  Extension  Board. 

J.  B.  Coxxett, 

Presiding  Elder. 

By  motion  the  Sydney  Church  is  ordered  sold  and  its  furniture 
be  given  to  the  Perrysville  Avenue  Church  in  Danville,  Ill. 

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By  motion,  Newman  Church  was  ordered  sold. 
The  following  report  was  approved : 


THE  TI1IHD  YEAR  S  COURSE. 


We,  your  Committee  on  Third  Year’s  Reading  Course,  submit 
the  following: 

The  class  consists  of  I.  S.  Mclver,  J.  L.  Pellum,  II.  S.  Reese, 
O.  J.  Bogard,  M.  L.  Watson,  II.  A.  Bogard,  T.  II.  Decker,  F.  II. 
King. 

The  following  persons  appeared  before  the  committee  and  made 
the  following  grades: 

H.  A.  Bogard,  Shedd’s  Past.  Theo.,  93%;  Psychology,  85%. 
T.  II.  Decker,  Psychology,  95%  ;  Philippians,  95% ;  Auros,  100%  ; 
The  Christian  Pastor,  95%;  Elem.  Higher  Crit.,  85%;  Christian 
Faith,  70%. 


M.  L.  Watson,  Psychology,  100%;  Philippians,  100%';  Auros, 
100%;  Sermon,  85%;  The  Christian  Pastor,  90%';  Elem.  Higher 
Crit.,  85%;  Christian  Faith,  75%'. 

J.  L.  Pellum,  Psychology,  95%;  Sermon,  95%. 

I.  S.  Mclver,  Psychology,  85%;  Sermon,  85%. 

F.  H.  King,  Auros,  90% ;  Ephesians,  95%. 

We  recommend  that  J.  L.  Pellum,  having  completed  the  Third 
Year,  pass  to  the  Fourth  Year;  that  the  remaining  members  of 
the  class  be  retained  in  the  Third  Year. 

The  committee  kindly  urges  much  greater  diligence  on  the  part 
of  the  members  of  the  class. 


Respectfully  submitted, 

T.  D.  Spyker, 

W.  L.  Duncan, 

N.  E.  Royer, 

Committee 


The  following  report  was  read  and  approved: 


EDUCATIONAL  R E PORT. 

One  has  said,  “A  boy  is  better  unborn  than  untaught”;  another, 
“Capacity  without  education  is  deplorable.”  If  these  statements 
be  true  the  highest  duty  of  the  church  is  to  provide  well  for  the 
training  of  its  young  life.  There  is  a  great  deal  more  depending 
upon  this  than  we  at  first  expect. 

For  over  a  century  the  Church  has  heen  blazing  her  way  to  the 
front,  meeting  the  various  demands  as  they  arose.  But  our  greatest 
demand  now  is  men. 

Many  local  churches  are  dying  because  of  the  lack  of  leadership. 
To  stop  this  loss  we  must  train  our  young  life  for  the  positions  of 
trust,  train  them  not  only  in  philosophy  and  science,  history  and 


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language,  but  in  the  deep  things  of  life,  in  the  building  of  a 
strong  character. 

This  training  is  not  only  necessary  among  our  laymen,  but  also 
our  ministers. 

What  makes  our  short  pastorates  and  disappointed  ministers? 
It  is  lack  of  training.  Our  local  churches  have  been  spoiled  by 
us.  We  teach  them  enthusiasm  instead  of  organization  and  toil. 
By  this  enthusiasm  we  are  relegating  efficient  men  who  are  able 
to  pull. 

After  a  year  or  two  the  enthusiasm  goes  to  sleep,  just  when  the 
pull  begins.  The  educated  church  with  its  minister  will  settle 
down  to  the  task  in  hand,  pulling  and  organizing  until  the  victory 
comes.  These  short  pastorates  of  two  and  three  years  must  be 
banished  from  our  church  life.  And  to  do  this  it  takes  men  who 
are  willing  to  do  hard  mental  work. 

We  are  glad  for  the  noble  men  and  women  our  own  college  at 
Westfield  is  turning  out.  Westfield  is  making  advancement  in  all 
lines  of  work  under  the  management  of  President  B.  F.  Daugherty, 
for  which  we  feel  grateful.  He  reports  a  very  hopeful  outlook 
both  in  students  and  money  for  the  coming  year. 

We  recognize  the  importance  of  our  college  for  the  welfare  of 
our  Church  in  this  State;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we  give  Westfield  College  our  since  rest  loyalty 
and  support,  and  that  we  turn  the  attention  of  our  young  people 
to  its  halls. 

2.  That  we  recommend  an  assessment  of  at  least  ten  cents  per 
member  for  the  coming  year,  and  that  the  pastors  give  all  diligence 
in  raising  the  amount  in  full. 

3.  We  also  heartily  approve  of  the  plan  to  raise  the  endowment 
fund  to  $50,000  the  coming  year,  and  that  the  pastors  give  all 
assistance  possible  in  securing  the  amount. 

4.  We  also  suggest  the  cooperation  of  pastors  with  the  Educa¬ 
tional  Superintendent  of  the  Branch  Christian  Endeavor  Union 
of  the  Conference. 

Recognizing  the  importance  of  a  trained  ministry  and  the 
indispensable  agency  of  the  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary  in 
fitting  men  for  the  highest  service  in  pulpit  and  pastorate,  we 
pledge  ourselves  as  individuals  and  as  a  Conference  to  support 
the  action  of  the  General  Conference  in  directing  a  canvass  of 
the  entire  Church  for  funds,  that  this  institution  may  have  larger 
life  and  efficiency. 

We  also  pledge  our  sympathy  and  help  to  the  General  Manager, 
the  Executive  Committee  and  the  Board  of  Directors  in  reaching 
the  goal  set  at  the  last  board  meeting  of  $200,000  additional  en¬ 
dowment  by  October  1,  1911,  and  in  the  dedication  of  at  least  one 


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new  building  as  a  feature  of  the  celebration  of  the  fortieth  anni¬ 
versary  of  the  founding  of  the  Seminary,  to  be  held  at  that  time. 

As  a  Conference,  we  heartily  endorse  the  movement  and  pledge 
the  management  our  hearty  cooperation  in  this  work,  and  assure 
them  that  we  will  do  what  we  can  on  our  respective  fields  of  labor 
to  encourage  our  people  to  assist  in  this  worthy  enterprise. 

We  cheerfully  accept  our  full  apportionment  for  beneficiary 
education  and  shall  endeavor  to  raise  the  amount  in  full. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

Committee. 

President  B.  F.  Daugherty  and  others  spoke  upon  the  subject 
of  education. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  H.  W.  Broadstone. 


SATUBDAY  MORNING— FOURTH  DAY—  8 :  30  A.  M. 

Devotion  conducted  by  Bishop  Bell. 

The  proceedings  of  yesterday  were  approved. 

The  following  report  was  approved: 

MEMOIRS. 

Your  Committee  on  Memoirs  submit  the  following:  Inasmuch 
as  God  in  his  allwise  providence  has  removed  from  our  midst  our 
beloved  brother,  J.  Cougill,  and  while  we  deeply  feel  our  loss,  we 
humbly  bow  to  the  divine  will  of  him  who  doeth  all  things  well; 
therefore, 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we,  as  a  Conference,  extend  to  the  bereft 
wife  and  children  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in  this  their  hour  of 
bereavement  and  pray  God’s  sustaining  grace  upon  them. 

2.  That  in  the  death  of  Brother  Cougill  this  Conference  has 
lost  one  of  the  most  faithful  ministers  and  coworkers  in  the  Lord’s 
vineyard. 

3.  We  recommend  that  Revs.  S.  Mills  and  W.  L.  Perkins  speak 
in  honor  of  his  devoted  and  loyal  Christian  life. 

T.  Walters, 

Z.  FI.  Byard, 

N.  E.  Royer, 

Committee. 

By  motion  the  hour  of  2:00  p.m.  was  chosen  for  the  memorial 
services. 

Report  of  the  Beneficiary  Aid  Treasurer  was  approved,  as 
follows : 


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REPORT  OF  TREASURER  BENEFICIARY  AID  ASSOCIATION. 


August  10,  1910. 


In  treasury  one  year  ago . 

Chart  collection  for  1909 . 

Received  from  Illinois  Conference,  cash 
Collected  on  notes . 


Total  . 

Disbursements. 

To  beneficiaries . 

White  River  Conference  treasurer,  cash 

Treasurer  . 

Expenses  . 

Loaned  at  six  per  cent . 


Total  . 

Balance  in  the  treasury . 

Paid  Rev.  J.  Id.  Reynolds,  treasurer  Preachers'  Aid, 
because  of  division  of  territory  by  the  General 

Conference,  cash  . 

Notes  . 

Total  . 

Rev.  G.  W.  Gilley,  Indiana  Conference,  note . 

Total  . 

Received  a  note  from  Illinois  Conference . 

Making  a  total  received  by  the  division . 


Making  a  total  loss  by  the  division 

All  notes  in  treasury . 

Cash . 


$179 

83 

264 

43 

281 

58 

1,687 

24 

$2,413 

10 

$300 

00 

58 

08 

20 

00 

6 

00 

1,954 

40 

$2,338 

48 

$74 

62 

$58 

08 

1,119 

72 

$1,177 

80 

232 

93 

$1,410 

73 

$48 

98 

281 

58 

$330  56 
$1,080  17 
$1,722  00 
74  62 


Total  assets  . 

Total  amount  of  notes 


$4,796  62 
$4,722  00 


S.  Mills, 

Treasurer. 


The  Home  Missionary  Committee  was  appointed,  as  follows: 
J.  B.  Connett,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  C.  C.  Rose. 

The  church  erection  treasurer  reports  in  our  favor  a  discrepancy 
of  twenty-five  dollars  in  our  adjustment  with  White  River  Con¬ 
ference  in  the  case  of  West  Terre  Haute  Church  and  the  Third 


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Terre  Haute  Church.  By  motion  said  treasurer  is  instructed  to 
settle  with  the  White  River  Conference  as  per  just  claims  and  keep 
the  balance  in  the  treasury. 

Report  of  Committee  on  Conference  Bulletin  was  approved,  as 
follows : 


CO X FERE NO E  BU  L L ET I N . 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Bulletin,  recommend:  1. 
The  continuation  of  our  Conference  Bulletin  in  its  present  form. 
2.  That  the  presiding  elder  he  the  editor  with  the  privilege  of 
calling  to  his  assistance  whatever  help  he  may  desire.  3.  That 
each  pastor  be  held  responsible  for  the  number  of  copies  taken  on 
his  charge.  Respectfully, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

J.  B.  Connett, 

Committee. 

By  motion  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Association  Board  is 
instructed  to  provide  a  way  to  pay  the  conference  missionaries 
monthly. 

By  motion  it  was  decided  that  the  Finance  Committee  make  an 
assessment  upon  the  fields  of  labor  to  cover  the  expenses  incurred 
in  the  Annual  Conference  sessions,  including  fees  for  recording 
and  statistical  secretary  service. 

L.  H.  Cooley  was  elected  recording  secretary  and  IT.  H.  Heberly 
statistical  secretary  for  the  coming  year. 

The  following  report  was  adopted : 


SUPPLEMENTARY  REPORT  OF  MEMOIRS. 

Whereas  death  has  recently  entered  the  home  of  Rev.  C.  K. 
Gladwell  in  the  case  of  his  little  child: 

Resolved ,  That  we,  as  ministers  of  this  Conference,  extend  to 
Brother  Gladwell  and  family  our  heartfelt  sympathy  in  the  loss 
of  one  so  dear  to  them. 

T.  Walters, 

Z.  H.  Byard, 

N.  E.  Royer, 

Committee. 


At  this  time  H.  11.  Heberly  presented  to  the  Conference  the 
foreign  missionary  literature  as  requested  by  J.  Edgar  Knipp,  edu¬ 
cational  secretary  of  the  Foreign  Board. 


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The  following  reports  were  approved : 

CONFERENCE  TREASURER  SUBMITS  FOLLOWING  REPORT: 


Col.  for  home  missions  $510  53 


Foreign  missions .  499  TO 

Conf.  eh.  extension..  ..  1,195  97 

Church  erection .  119  29 

S.  S.  general .  120  50 

Bishop  .  386  00 

Preachers'  Aid .  231  31 

Ben.  education .  73  00 

Seminary  .  136  80 

Westfield  .  291  51 

Conf.  Ex.  Fund .  83  00 

Bible  cause .  475 

Children’s  Day  col .  2  00  1 

Gen.  Conf.  ex .  1  00 

Parsonage  erection.  ...  7  00 


Paid  J.  C.  Fowler.  ..  .$1,195  97 


B.  F.  Daugherty .  291  51 

S.  Mills .  231  31 


O.  Miller,  General 
Treasurer .  1,943  57 


$3,662  36  $3,662  36 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  Treasurer. 
Per  Edward  Boley, 

Robinson,  Ill.,  Sept.  10,  1910.  Treasurer,  pro  tern . 


REPORT  of  s.  o.  stoltz,  treasurer  of  conference,  FROM  SUNDAY, 

AUGUST  22,  1909,  TO  SEPTEMBER  6,  1910. 

Receipts .  Dish  ur  semen  ts . 


Col.,  Aug.  22,  1909.  ..  .  $80  12  To  secretaries .  $40  00 

To  treasurer .  20  00 

To  Bishop .  20  12 


Total .  $80  12 

On  Publication  Fund.  $89  30  To  Dr.  Funk,  Agt .  $88  30 

To  L.  O.  Miller,  to-day  1  00 


Total .  $89  30 

For  home  missions.  ...  $181  47  Previously  paid  to  Dr. 

Whitney .  $39  52 

To  L.  O.  Miller,  to-day  121  95 


Foreign  missions 


Total .  $181  47 

$281  10  Previously  paid  to  Dr. 

Hough  .  $188  80 

To-day  to  L.  O.  Miller  92  30 


Total . $281  10 

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Church  extension 


$162  68 


Previously  paid  to  J.  S. 

Fowler  . .  $156  60 

To-day  .  6  08 


Church  erec.,  special..  $21  66 

Bishop’s  salary .  $43  00 

Westfield  College .  $46  75 


Total .  $162  68 

To  L.  O.  Miller,  to-day  $21  66 
To  L.  O.  Miller,  to-day  $43  00 
Previously  to  C.  E. 

Bigelow  .  $20  00 

To-day  .  26  75 


Preachers’  Aid .  $40  00 

Educational  Bene .  $17  00 


Bonebrake  Seminary.  .  $27  00 


Total .  $46  75 

To  S.  Mills,  to-day.  ..  .  $40  00 

Previously  paid .  $12  00 

Paid  to-day .  5  00 


Total .  $17  00 

Previously  paid .  $16  00 

Paid  to-day .  $11  00 


S.  S.  general 


Total .  $27  00 

$17  00  To  L.  O.  Miller,  to-day  $17  00 
Respectfully  submitted, 

S.  O.  Stoltz. 


St.  Francisville,  Ill.,  Sept.  9,  1910. 


Robinson,  Ill.,  Sept.  10,  1910. 

The  Auditing  Committee  have  examined  the  foregoing  report 
and  find  same  correct.  C.  O.  Myers, 

Wm.  Quigley, 

Committee. 

laymen’s  report. 

We,  the  lay  members  of  the  Conference,  submit  the  following 
report : 

As  laymen  in  Lower  Wabash  Conference  assembled,  we  recom¬ 
mend:  1.  That  the  Conference  put  the  same  interest  and  good 

business  sense  and  modern  methods  into  the  management  of  the 
church  finances  that  they  put  into  their  business  affairs. 

2.  That,  as  a  Conference,  we  seek  to  carry  out  the  spirit  and 
recommendations  of  the  General  Conference  held  at  Canton,  Ohio, 
in  that  we  will  seek  to  increase  the  support  of  our  presiding  elder 
at  least  twenty-one  per  cent,  during  the  quadrennium,  and  that 
we  make  at  least  ten  per  cent,  advance  in  all  interests. 

3.  That  the  Conference  instruct  the  presiding  elder  to  intro¬ 
duce  the  New  Testament  system  of  church  support  in  all  our 


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churches,  namely,  weekly  giving  for  current  expenses  and  general 
benevolences. 

4.  That  we  pledge  ourselves  and  call  upon  the  laymen  through¬ 
out  Lower  Wabash  Conference  to  put  the  same  interest  and  busi¬ 
ness  methods  in  the  benevolences  of  the  general  Church  as  should 
be  done  in  the  local  church  expenses. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Chairman,  Oh  as.  Adams, 

Mrs.  Frame,  Secretary,  G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  W.  L.  Duncan. 


SATURDAY  AFTERNOON— FOURTH  DAY— 8:00  P.  M. 

The  1 :  00  p.m.  hour  was  occupied  by  the  Beneficiary  Aid  Asso¬ 
ciation  of  the  Conference. 

The  chairman,  T.  Walters,  of  the  Committee  on  Memoirs,  con¬ 
ducted  memorial  services  at  2 :  00  p.m.  in  memory  of  J.  Cougill,  as 
per  action  of  the  Conference  this  forenoon. 

The  report  of  the  statistical  secretary  was  read  and  approved. 
The  report  was  a  synopsis  of  the  Conference  chart. 

The  report  of  the  Standing  Committee  on  Resolutions  was 
approved,  as  follows: 

RESOLUTIONS. 

We  magnify  the  mercy  of  God  by  which  the  Holy  Spirit  was 
permitted  to  lead  us  out  of  darkness  into  the  light  and  liberty  of 
his  grace.  For  giving  us  a  place  among  his  people,  and  for  the 
blessed  fellowship  of  the  same.  Therefore, 

Resolved ,  1.  That,  as  ministers,  we  will  strive  to  magnify  the 
office  to  which  we  have  been  called  by  declaring  the  whole  council 
of  God,  giving  to  both  saint  and  sinner  their  portion  in  due  season. 

2.  That  the  laity  heartily  cooperate  with  the  pastors  by  means 
of  a  pious  life  and  godly  conservation,  and  assist  them  in  carry¬ 
ing  out  their  plans  for  the  building  up  of  the  kingdom  and  the 
salvation  of  souls. 

3.  We  deplore  the  tendency  to  laxness  of  parental  control  and 
insist  that  family  government  is  the  foundation  of  all  government 
and  urge  upon  parents  the  necessity  of  requiring  obedience  on  the 
part  of  children. 

4.  Lest  we  be  in  danger  of  rearing  a  generation  of  young 
heathen  in  our  midst,  we  appeal  to  Sunday-school  workers,  both 
teachers  and  pupils,  to  become  home  missionaries  in  the  matter  of 
gathering  these  stray  lambs  into  the  Sunday  school,  and  urge 
them  to  remain  for  the  preaching  service. 

5.  In  view  of  the  fact  that  so  many  are  becoming  money  mad 
and  pleasure  mad,  we  appreciate  the  importance  of  calling  the 

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attention  of  the  people  to  the  solemn  verities  of  life,  and  appeal 
to  them  to  consecrate  their  lives,  their  time  and  their  property  to 
God,  to  the  end  that  all  the  tithes  may  be  brought  into  the  store¬ 
house,  that  the  family  altar  may  be  restored,  that  the  mid-week 
prayer-meeting  be  renewed  and  the  sanctuary  filled  with  devout 
worshipers. 

6.  That  we  not  only  mix  our  religion  with  our  business  and 
with  our  pleasure,  but  that  we  also  mix  it  with  our  politics,  and 
urge  every  voter  to  get  busy  in  the  primary  and  so  unite  their 
votes  that  the  best  man  available  in  our  party  may  be  nominated 
for  the  office  to  be  filled.  Then  on  election  day,  if  for  any  reason, 
an  undesirable  man  has  secured  the  candidacy  on  our  ticket,  and 
a  worthy  man  is  available  on  the  opposition  ticket,  let  us  have  the 
courage  to  vote  for  man  and  principle  rather  than  party. 

7.  That  we  thank  our  worthy  Bishop  Bell  for  the  kind,  im¬ 
partial  and  masterly  manner  in  which  he  has  presided  over  the 
deliberations  of  our  Conference,  and  pray  God’s  choicest  blessings 
upon  him. 

8.  That  we  appreciate  the  kindness  of  the  faculty  and  the 
president  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  Mr.  F.  L.  Dewey,  for  inviting 
us  to  visit  the  township  high  school  in  session  and  inspect  the  new 
building. 

9.  And  that  we  thank  the  Mayor  of  this  city  and  members  of 
the  commercial  club  for  their  kindness  in  conveying  the  members 
of  the  Conference  to  and  from  the  high-school  building  in  their 
touring  cars. 

9.  That  we  thank  Bev.  J.  B.  Norviel  and  his  church  and  other 
good  people  of  Robinson  for  their  generous  hospitality  in  opening 
their  homes  and  churches  for  the  entertainment  of  our  Conference. 

FI.  W.  Broadstone, 

Committee. 

By  motion  it  was  agreed  to  pay  S.  O.  Stoltz  and  E.  Bolev,  Con¬ 
ference  treasurers,  $20.00  for  service. 

The  following  report  was  approved: 

Robinson,  Ill.,  Sept.  10,  1910. 

This  certifies  that  we  have  examined  the  following  named  treas¬ 
urers’  books :  Conference  Church  Erection,  Conference  Board  of 
Trustees,  Church  Extension  and  Conference  treasurers  and  find 
same  correct.  C.  O.  Myers, 

W.  Quigley, 

Committee. 

Here  occurred  the  election  of  the  trustees  of  Westfield  College, 
Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  and  the  Conference. 


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F.  H.  King,  I.  S.  Mclver  and  N.  E.  Royer  were  appointed  tellers 
to  count  the  ballots  and  report  at  their  earliest  convenience. 

PRESIDING  ELDER — SUPERINTENDENT. 

Whereas  the  Conference  has  elected  one  presiding  elder  as 
superintendent  of  the  Conference,  the  following  resolutions  are 
offered,  not  to  limit  his  operations,  but  to  emphasize  some  of  his 
more  important  duties : 

1.  That  the  presiding  elder  be  required  to  hold  only  two 
quarterly  conferences  during  the  year,  preferably  the  first  and  last, 
unless  special  conditions  may  require  the  holding  of  others. 

2.  The  presiding  elder  shall  give  special  attention  to  the  busi¬ 
ness  administration  of  the  affairs  of  the  Conference. 

3.  That  all  other  quarterly  conferences  be  held  by  the  pastors, 
unless  other  proxies  be  provided  by  the  presiding  elder;  and  that 
the  presiding  elder’s  salary  be  collected  and  sent  by  the  pastor 
to  the  presiding  elder  at  each  quarterly  conference. 

4.  That  the  ordained  pastors  and  Annual  Conference  preachers 
hold  their  own  quarterly  communion  services,  and  that  proxies  be 
appointed  to  hold  other  communion  services  of  other  pastors  as 
the  presiding  elder  may  direct. 

5.  That  the  presiding  elder  shall  give  special  attention  to  the 
development  of  the  Sunday  schools,  Young  People’s  societies, 
church  extension,  home  and  foreign  missions,  college  interests,  sys¬ 
tematic  giving  and  all  other  general  interests  of  the  Church,  and 
the  securing  of  all  the  benevolences  in  full. 

Signed,  -  T.  D.  Spyker, 

B.  F.  Daugherty,  J.  B.  Connett, 

J.  C.  Fowler,  J.  T.  McCreery. 

$ 

The  report  of  the  Boundary  and  Finance  Committee  was  read. 
Pending  the  consideration  of  this  report,  the  Conference  voted  an 
appropriation  of  $150  to  Perrysville  Avenue  Mission,  of  Danville, 
Ill.  The  entire  paper  was  then  adopted,  as  follows: 

BOUNDARY  COMMITTEE. 

Your  Committee  on  Boundary  and  Finance  would  make  the 
following  recommendations : 

That  Prairie  class  be  detached  from  Loogootee  Circuit  and 
attached  to  Avena  Circuit,  and  that  Edgewood  Circuit  be  attached 
to  the  remaining  appointments  of  Loogootee  Circuit  and  consti¬ 
tute  Loogootee  Circuit. 

That  the  Flora  appointment  be  attached  to  Flora  Circuit,  the 
Woodlawn  appointment  and  the  Delhi  appointment  to  constitute 
Delhi  Circuit,  and  that  Flora  Mission  be  discontinued. 

That  the  Seminary  appointment  be  detached  from  Parkersburg 
Circuit  and  attached  to  Olney  Circuit. 

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That  the  Kimmel  appointment  be  attached  to  Parkersburg  Cir¬ 
cuit  and  that  the  West  Salem  and  Friendsville  appointments  be 
attached  to  Patton  Circuit  and  constitute  West  Salem  Circuit. 

That  Metropolis,  with  church  and  parsonage,  be  attached  to 
Vienna  Circuit. 

That  Calhoun  Church  be  given  to  the  Kimmel  appointment,  and 
that  the  trustees  of  Calhoun  parsonage  be  authorized  to  sell  it  and 
divide  the  proceeds  equally  between  Sumner,  Olney  and  Parkers 
circuits. 

That  the  Jewett  and  Woodbury  appointments  be  detached  from 
Island  Grove  Circuit  and  attached  to  Greenup  Circuit. 

That  the  Glosshrenner  and  Lake  Shore  appointments  be  detached 
from  Danville  Circuit  and  the  Union  appointment  be  detached 
from  Royal  Circuit,  the  three  appointments  to  constitute  Oakwood 
Circuit. 

That  the  Blue  Mound  appointment  be  placed  under  the  care  of 
Penfield  Circuit,  and  that  Royal  Circuit  be  discontinued. 

That  the  Perrysville  Avenue  appointment,  of  Danville,  be  re¬ 
ceived  into  the  Conference  under  said  name. 

That  the  name  of  Findlay  Circuit  be  changed  to  Findlay  Mis¬ 
sion,  with  $300  appropriation,  the  pastor  to  reside  at  Findlay. 

We  recommend  that  the  traveling  expenses  of  the  College 
Trustees  be  paid  out  of  the  Contingent  Fund,  and  the  present 
Publication  Fund  be  changed  to  Contingent  Fund. 

We  recommend  the  following  appropriations: 


Danville  . $350  00 

Toledo  .  300  00 

Marshall  .  300-  00 

Delhi  .  200  00 

Findlay  .  300  00 

Perrysville  Avenue,  Danville .  150  00 


We  recommend  that  the  Conference  take  steps  immediately  to 
plant  our  Church  in  the  city  of  East  St.  Louis;  that  the  Con¬ 
ference  commit  this  matter  to  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Build¬ 
ing  Board,  and  that  the  Conference  appropriate,  not  to  exceed 
$500  for  pastoral  support,  and  that  this  amount  be  available  when 
the  presiding  elder  with  the  advice  of  the  Church  and  Parsonage 
Board  has  appointed  a  pastor  for  the  place. 

We  recommend  that  Newman  Circuit  be  discontinued. 

On  motion  it  was  decided  that  the  amount  of  appropriation  to 
Mt.  Vernon  be  left  to  the  presiding  elder  and  the  Church  and 
Parsonage  Board. 

That  Otterbein  appointment  be  placed  under  the  care  of  the 
presiding  elder.  D.  R.  Seneff,  Chairman, 

T.  D.  Spyker,  Secretary. 


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FINANCE  COM  MITT EE  S  REPORT. 


FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Presiding 

Elder’s  Salary. 

Church 

Extension. 

Bishop  s 

Salary. 

Beneficiary 

Aid. 

Sunday-school 

Fund. 

Bonebrake 

Seminary. 

Westfield 

College. 

Education 

Beneficiary. 

Ashmore . 

S  26 

8  40 

$  8'8  5 

$  4 

L  J 
$  6 

$  18 

S  2 

Avena . 

21 

34 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

Annapolis . 

32 

50 

10 

7 

4 

7 

20 

3 

Broadlands . 

41 

65 

13 

8 

6 

9 

20 

4 

Beecher . 

21 

34 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

Birds . 

29 

45 

9 

6 

4 

7 

20 

4 

Bluford . /.  .  .  . 

35 

55 

11 

8 

5 

7 

35 

2 

Chesterville . 

20 

30 

6 

4 

3 

5 

25 

2 

Clarksburg .  . 

24 

38 

8 

5 

3 

6 

15 

2 

Casey  Station .  . 

38 

60 

12 

8 

5 

9 

25 

3 

Casey  Circuit . 

35 

55 

11 

7 

4 

9 

20 

3 

Danville  Station .  . 

32 

50 

10 

6 

4 

8 

20 

3 

Danville  Circuit ....  . 

35 

55 

11 

7 

4 

8 

30 

3 

Delhi . 

10 

25 

5 

3 

2 

5 

10 

2 

Fisher . 

32 

50 

10 

6 

4 

7 

22 

3 

Findlay .  . 

19 

30 

6 

4 

3 

5 

16 

2 

Flora  Circuit .  . 

40 

60 

12 

8 

5 

8 

30 

3 

Galton . 

25 

35 

7 

5 

3 

5 

12 

2 

Greenup . 

18 

30 

6 

4 

3 

5 

8 

2 

Hillary...' . 

7 

10 

2 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

Island  Grove . 

22 

34 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

Johnstown .... 

18 

28 

6 

4 

2 

5 

8 

1 

Locust  Grove . 

32 

50 

10 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

Lawrenceville .... 

19 

30 

6 

4 

3 

5 

15 

2 

Loogootee . 

32 

50 

10 

7 

4 

7 

18 

3 

Martinsville .... 

40 

62 

12 

8 

5 

9 

35 

4 

Marshall . 

17 

25 

5 

3 

2 

5 

10 

1 

Mt.  Vernon .... 

19 

30 

4 

6 

3 

5 

12 

2 

New  Hebron .  . 

38 

60 

2 

8 

5 

8 

35 

3 

Oakwood . 

35 

55 

11 

8 

4 

8 

30 

3 

Otterbein . 

i 

10 

2 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

Oblong . 

28 

40 

8 

5 

4 

6 

25 

2 

Olney  Station .  . 

32 

50 

10 

7 

4 

8 

32 

3 

Olney  Circuit . 

38 

60 

12 

8 

5 

8 

24 

3 

Penfieid . 

29 

45 

9 

6 

4 

6 

15 

2 

Potomac . 

38 

60 

12 

8 

5 

9 

18 

3 

Perrysville  Ave . 

7 

10 

2 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

Parkersburg . 

40 

65 

13 

9 

5 

9 

22 

4 

Paris . 

35 

50 

10 

7 

4 

7 

25 

3 

Redman . 

40 

60 

12 

8 

5 

8 

25 

3 

Rossville . 

1  35 

55 

11 

8 

4 

8 

30 

3 

Robinson . 

30 

48 

10 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

St.  Francisville . 

43 

68 

13 

9 

6 

9 

42 

4 

Sumner . 

41 

64 

13 

8 

5 

8 

35 

4 

Toledo . 

30 

48 

10 

6 

4 

7 

15 

3 

Vergennes . 

26 

40 

8 

5 

4 

6 

24 

2 

Vienna . 

20 

32 

6 

4 

3 

5 

20 

2 

Vermillion . 

31 

45 

9 

6 

4 

i 

15 

2 

White  Heath . 

29 

45 

9 

6 

4 

7 

18 

2 

West  Salem . 

35 

55 

11 

7 

5 

8 

37 

3 

WTestfield  Circuit . 

26 

^0 

8 

5 

3 

6 

35 

2 

Westfield  Station . 

45 

64 

12 

8 

5 

9 

25 

4 

Yale . 

40 

60 

12 

8 

5 

9 

30 

3 

t 

7 


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Conference  Proceedings 


S.  O.  Stoltz  was  elected  Conference  treasurer  for  the  coming1 
year. 

The  .pastors  were  instructed  to  send  to  the  Publishing  House  for 
their  quarterly  conference  blanks. 

J.  C.  Fowler,  treasurer  of  the  Church  Extension  Funds,  was 
authorized  to  apply  the  balance  in  the  treasury  on  the  old  Con¬ 
ference  mission  debt. 

A  declaration  of  intention  was  made  by  the  Conference  that  the 
vote  for  Church  Extension  Trustees  be  declared  the  vote  for 
Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  Trustees.  Owing  to 
much  confusion  arising  from  a  misunderstanding  concerning  the 
change  from  the  Church  Erection  Society  to  the  Church  and  Par¬ 
sonage  Building  Association,  a  motion  to  reconsider  the  substi¬ 
tute  made  yesterday  to  the  report  of  the  committee  that  drafted 
the  constitution  for  said  change  prevailed. 

This  bringing  the  whole  question  before  the  house  again,  a 
motion  prevailed  that  D.  B.  Seneff,  B.  F.  Daugherty,  G.  W.  Bone- 
brake,  T.  D.  Spvker  and  E.  M.  Pierson  should  take  the  whole  sub¬ 
ject  under  advisement  and  dispel  this  confusion. 

Adjourned  to  7 :  00  p.m.  Benediction  by  the  Bishop. 

Conference  convened  at  7 :  00.  Prayer  was  offered  by  G.  W. 
Bonebrake. 

The  special  committee  appointed  just  before  adjournment  this 
afternoon  reported  as  follows : 

Your  committee  appointed  to  report  upon  the  misunderstanding 
of  the  afternoon  concerning  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building 
Association  would  recommend  that  the  motion  now  pending  be 
passed.  This  means  simply  that  the  constitution  was  adopted 
without  substitute,  or  as  it  came  from  the  hands  of  the  committee 
that  framed  the  constitution. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted:  We  recommend  that  the 
officers  of  this  Association  see  to  it  that  the  Association  is  in¬ 
corporated  as  early  as  possible.  D.  B.  Seneff, 

B.  F.  Daugherty. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

T.  D.  Spyker, 

E.  M.  Pierson, 

Committee. 

S.  Mills,  president  of  the  former  Conference  Church  Erection 
Society,  was  authorized  to  take  proper  legal  steps  to  declare  said 
society  defunct. 

By  motion  all  pastors  are  authorized,  as  per  Discipline,  to 
officiate  in  administering  the  sacraments  and  the  ordinance  of 
baptism. 


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Report  of  the  Board  of  Tellers  was  approved,  as  follows: 

REPORT  OF  BOARD  OF  TELLERS. 

Your  committee  reports  as  follows: 

For  Westfield  College  Trustees — J.  B.  Connett  and  C.  C.  Hodges, 
each  three  years;  W.  L.  Duncan,  two  years;  and  Ross  Woolford, 
one  year.  For  Conference  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Asso¬ 
ciation  Trustees — President,  J.  T.  McCreery;  secretary,  J.  B. 
Connett;  treasurer,  G.  W.  Bonebrake.  For  Conference  Trustees — 
L.  E.  Miller,  H.  H.  Heberly,  J.  C.  Fowler. 

The  following  reports  were  approved: 

REPORT  OF  CONFERENCE  CHURCH  EXTENSION  TREASURER. 

•  j 

Your  Conference  Treasurer  of  Church  Extension  would  submit 
the  following  report : 

Amount  of  funds  received  since  the  last  session  of  Conference, 
one  year  ago,  from  the  Conference  treasurer  from  pastors  and  from 
all  other  sources,  $1,834.27.  Paid  out  on  appropriation  ordered  by 
the  Conference  one  year  ago  for  postage,  incidentals  and  other 
expenses,  $1,273.00,  leaving  a  balance  in  the  treasury  of  $561.22. 
Indebtedness,  $642.00.  Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

Treasurer. 

We,  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations,  recommend  that 
H.  A.  Lehwald  be  granted  the  relation  of  evangelist-at-large  as 
requested  by  him.  Respectfully  submitted, 

W.  C.  Harbert, 

D.  C.  Ade, 

H.  FT.  Heberly, 

Committee. 

By  motion  the  secretaries’  fees  are  to  be  secured  by  public 
collection  to-morrow  morning,  and  J.  B.  Connett  is  authorized  to 
superintend  the  collection. 

By  motion  the  Conference  Board  of  Trustees  are  empowered  to 
sell  all  church  property  ordered  sold  by  Conference,  except  the 
Newman  Church. 

By  motion  the  Conference  reserves  the  time  of  business  trans¬ 
actions,  if  necessary,  to  close  of  to-morrow  night’s  services. 

The  following  committee  was  appointed  to  cooperate  with  a 
similar  committee  that  may  be  appointed  by  the  Northern  Illinois 
Conference :  Committee  on  State-wide  Cooperative  W  ork,  E.  E. 


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Johnson,  B.  F.  Daugherty,  D.  B.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Connett,  L.  A. 
Bider. 

Committee  intended  to  see  that  all  pastors’  reports  were  handed 
in  on  the  first  day  of  Conference  next  year  and  correct  such  reports 
by  the  direction  of  the  recording  secretary  before  said  reports  are 
put  upon  the  chart  by  the  statistical  secretary. 

Adjourned. 

The  Sunday  services  of  the  Conference  consisted  of  an  exceed¬ 
ingly  good  sermon  in  the  morning  by  Bishop  Bell  and  the  ordina¬ 
tion  of  one  candidate ;  communion  services  and  love  feast  at  3:00 
p.m. ;  preaching  by  Dr.  J.  E.  Fout,  Manager  of  Bonebrake  Sem¬ 
inary,  at  the  night  service;  and  the  subscribing  of  $500  for  East 
St.  Louis  enterprise.  Bishop  Bell  took  up  the  subscription. 

REPORT  OF  THE  STATIONING  COMMITTEE. 

Conference  District — D.  B.  Seneff,  D.D.,  Presiding  Elder. 

Ashmore — T.  H.  Decker. 

Avena — C.  E.  Hogue. 

Annapolis — B.  C.  Peters. 

Broadlands — M.  L.  Watson. 

Beecher  City — Edgar  Seibert. 

Birds— G.  W.  Ball. 

Bluford— J.  F.  Fowler. 

Chesterville — C.  A.  Hall. 

Clarksburg — J.  H.  Easton. 

Casey — H.  S.  Beese. 

Casey  Station — C.  S.  Parker. 

Danville,  First  Church — G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

Danville,  Perrysville  Ave. — S.  D.  Bowman. 

Danville  Circuit — C.  A.  Dwyer. 

Delhi — To  be  supplied. 

East  St.  Louis — To  be  supplied. 

Fisher — W.  B.  Muncie. 

Findlay — To  be  supplied. 

Flora— I.  S.  Mclver. 

Galton — J.  C.  McBride. 

Greenup — A.  J.  Olmstead. 

Hillary — C.  Forez. 

Island  Grove — J.  F.  Spencer. 

Johnstown — Mary  Mitchell. 

Locust  Grove — E.  E.  Bundy. 

Loogootee — G.  W.  Beid. 

Lawrenceville — J.  C.  Fowler. 


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Martinsville — J.  L.  Pellum. 

Marshall — E.  M.  Pierson. 

Mt.  Vernon — To  be  supplied. 

New  Hebron — S.  O.  Stoltz. 

Olney  Circuit — W.  ITarbert. 

Olney  Station — W.  L.  Duncan. 

Oblong — R.  Griffin. 

Otterbein — Arthur  Beldon . 

Oakwood — T.  D.  Spyker. 

Paris — J.  T.  McCreery. 

Penfield — C.  O.  Myers. 

Parkersburg — C.  N.  Gladwell. 

Potomac — IT.  D.  Hudson. 

Redmon — N.  E.  Royer. 

Rossville — B.  B.  Phelns. 

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Robinson — J.  B.  Norviel. 

St.  Francisville — O.  J.  Bogard. 

Sumner — L.  E.  Miller. 

Toledo— IT.  E.  King. 

Vergennes — G.  W.  Padrick. 

Vienna — R.  J.  Nash. 

Vermilion — W.  Beasley. 

West  Salem — H.  A.  Bogard. 

Westfield  Station — IT.  H.  Heberly. 

Westfield  Circuit — Z.  IT.  Byard. 

White  Heath — D.  C.  Ade. 

Yale — H.  W.  Broadstone. 

B.  F.  Daugherty,  President  Westfield  College. 

L.  H.  Cooley,  Professor  in  Westfield  College. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Field  Agent  for  Bonebrake  Theo.  Seminary. 
W.  L.  Perkins,  Student  in  Bonebrake  Theo.  Seminary. 

W.  O.  Albert,  Student  in  Bonebrake  Theo.  Seminary. 

Ona  Albert,  Student  in  Bonebrake  Theo.  Seminary. 

H.  A.  Lehwald,  Evangel ist-at-Large. 

Elizabeth  Thompson,  Student  in  Bonebrake  Theo.  Seminary. 
L.  Byard,  Conference  Evangelist. 


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Missionary  Contributions. 

DANVILLE  DISTRICT. 

ASHMORE  CIRCUIT— YV.  M.  Hall,  Pastor. 

W.  M.  Hall  and  wife,  $5  ;  J.  A.  Replogle,  $3 ;  Wm.  Miner,  Lilly  Miner 
Zulima  Painter,  Wm.  Rosebraugh,  E.  Corbin,  each,  $1 ;  Harry  Sotzen, 
FI.  W.  Walker,  each,  50  cents;  Win.  Baber,  Philip  Kaw,  Ed.  Kaw,  T. 
White,  Sister  Moffett,  each,  25  cents;  Collections,  $11.33.  Total,  $26.58. 
Home  Missions,  $15 ;  Sunday  School  for  Home  Missions,  $1.24 ;  Foreign 
Missions,  $4.55;  Sunday  School  for  F.  M.,  $1.79.  Grand  total,  $49.16. 

BROADLANDS  CHARGE— M.  L.  Watson,  Pastor. 

Pesotum  Class. — T.  E.  Condon,  $5 ;  Mrs.  Condon,  $5 ;  W.  W.  Roe,  $5 ; 
Mrs.  Roe,  $1  ;  Otis  Fletcher,  $3 ;  W.  P.  Starkey,  $1 ;  Chas.  and  Alba 
Starkey,  $1 ;  A1  Schurg,  $1  ;  C.  R.  Woodworth,  M.  E.  Starkey,  Ira 
Garrison,  Mrs.  Garrison,  Violetta  Woodworth,  each,  50  cents ;  A.  G. 
Hopper,  Mrs.  Hopper,  Harry  Starkey,  Archie  Starkey,  each.  25  cents  ; 
Willie  Roe,  Jr.,  1  cent.  Total,  $25.51. 

Foreign  Missions. — T.  E.  Condon  and  wife,  $5 ;  W.  W.  Roe,  $4 ;  Mrs. 
W.  W.  Roe,  $4 ;  Annie  Harrison,  25  cents ;  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Harrison,  $2  ; 
Madison  Harrison,  25  cents.  Total,  $15.50. 

Longview  Class. — C.  H.  Davis,  $10;  James  George,  $3;  F.  W.  Frame, 
$2 ;  Emanuel  Smith,  $2 ;  Fannie  Ross,  $2 ;  W.  E.  Shell,  $1 ;  Wm.  Kracht, 
$1 ;  Robt.  Dilworth,  $1 ;  Ruth  Baptist,  $1 ;  Luciele  Rutherford,  18  cents  ; 
Wayne  Shell,  19  cents ;  Marion  Shell,  12  cents ;  Russel  Smith,  35  cents ; 
Francis  Watson,  16  cents;  Roy  Davis,  25  cents;  Clarence  Bergefield,  16 
cents ;  Anna  Bergefield,  12  cents  ;  Herbert  Cooley,  30  cents.  Total,  $24.83. 

Broadlands  Class. — J.  R.  Johnson,  $10 ;  Albert  Allen,  $1 ;  Oliver 
Johnson,  $1  ;  O.  D.  Loomis  and  wife,  $1 ;  Anna  Lill,  50  cents ;  Millard 
Kesterson,  $1.75 ;  Pearl  Lill,  50  cents ;  Smith  Shepard,  $1 ;  Hattie  Dicks, 
50  cents ;  Bergefield  Bros.,  $1 ;  Mable  Melton,  55  cents  ;  Lester  Shipman, 
14  cents ;  Ester  Shepard.  $5.10 ;  Daisy  Melton,  50  cents  ;  Bert  Rush  $1  ; 
Wilson  Clem,  $1.  Total,  $23.75. 

CHESTER VILLE  STATION- C.  A.  Hall,  Pastor. 

W.  A.  Cummings,  $10 ;  Mark  Cummings  and  wife,  $10 ;  J.  M.  Dare,  $5  ; 
J.  A.  Layton,  $5;  J.  W.  Louthan,  $5;  P.  M.  Painter,  $3;  Abe  Ellis,  $2; 
Henry  Ropp,  $2 ;  Chas.  Hood,  $2 ;  Dale  Watson,  $4 ;  Mrs.  P.  M.  Painter, 
$2 ;  Wm.  Shaw,  $1 ;  Chas.  Ropp,  $1 ;  Glen  Painter,  $1.25 ;  Thos.  Hood, 
$1.50 ;  Robert  Foster,  $2 ;  Sam  Ginder,  $1 ;  Henry  Kruger,  $5 ;  Harry 
Grant,  $1.50;  Arthur  Thomason,  $1;  Wm.  Eakles,  $1;  H.  Woodall,  $1 ; 
H  .E.  Dare,  $1;  Clarence  Grant,  $1;  Clara  Grant,  50  cents;  Ollie  Grant, 
25  cents ;  Lewis  Grant,  50  cents  ;  Edd  Thornton,  $1 ;  Gertie  Grant,  25 
cents ;  Hiram  Stamp,  $1 ;  Stella  Ginder,  25  cents ;  Bertha  Orms,  $1  ; 
Birthday  Box,  $4 ;  General  Collection,  $6.  Grand  total,  $84. 

$15  to  Foreign  Missions,  $12  to  Home  Missions,  $22  to  Westfield 
College,  balance  on  other  claims.  All  claims  full. — C.  A.  Hall. 

DANVILLE  CIRCUIT— C.  A.  Dwyer,  Pastor. 

Lake  Shore  Class. — Frank  Illk  and  wife,  $5  ;  Sunday  School,  $7.71  ; 
Public  Collection,  $3,86;  Mary  C.  Green,  $3:  J.  S.  Litherland,  John  Fox, 


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L.  B.  Monroe,  Pearl  Fox,  Kate  Goodrich,  Mi's.  R.  F.  Davis,  Mrs.  C.  A. 
Vail,  Myrth  Dolby,  each,  50  cents  ;  Ruth  Cass,  Esther  Fox,  Nellie  Fox, 
Etta  Peak,  each,  25  cents.  Total  for  class  for  all  purposes,  $40.07. 

Glossbrenner  Class. — Charles  Clayton,  $3 ;  Lula  Crawford,  Hannah 
France,  each  $2;  Sunday  School,  $1.87;  Public  Collection,  $1.42;  Charles 
Crawford,  Sol.  France,  Simpson  Burton,  Turner  Jones,  Nettie  Clayton, 
Mike  France,  Josie  Burton,  each  $1  ;  Etta  Baird,  Jennie  Rossnett,  each. 
50  cents;  Paula  Baird,  Alice  Baird,  John  Rossnett,  each,  25  cents.  Total, 
$19.04. 

Farmers  Chapel  Class. — Sunday  School,  $12.93;  J.  E.  Saunders,  $10; 
Wm.  Bowman,  $0 ;  Samuel  Blair,  $5 ;  Emily  Johnson,  $5 ;  Mrs.  J.  E. 
Saunders,  D.  Dillon,  A.  Seifert,  D.  Lamm,  each,  $2;  H.  M.  Blair.  $3; 
Wm.  Adams,  $2;  Samuel  Douglas,  $1.25;  Chas.  Radebaugh,  Mrs.  Hemp¬ 
hill,  Avis  Johnson.  Chas.  Lynch,  Julia  Campbell,  Mamie  Adams,  Kate 
Blair,  Mrs.  Wm.  Bowman,  Mrs.  Jackson.  Ed.  Kelley,  Mrs.  Ceiders,  each, 
$1 ;  Jennie  Jackson,  Mrs.  L.  F.  Hyde,  Clarence  Clapp,  J.  W.  Farnsworth. 
W.  S.  Pemberton,  Sadie  Hemphill.  J.  W.  Hemphill,  Elsie  Saunders,  each, 
50  cents  ;  Helen  Blair,  Paul  Saunders,  each,  25  cents ;  Mrs.  Lamm,  Pearl 
Stickler,  each,  10  cents ;  Public  Collection,  $2.71.  Total,  $71.59. 

Union  Corner  Class. — Isabelle  Langley,  $10;  Sunday  School,  $11.38; 
R.  C.  Lamrlev,  Bessie  Langley,  Joseph  Langlev,  Blaine  Langley,  Thomas 
Gauty,  H.  C.  Stevenson,  each,  $5 ;  John  Wood,  Maggie  Gauty,  J.  A. 
.Tones,  Alice  Kemna.  Minnie  Kemna,  each,  $3;  Mrs.  .7.  A.  Jones,  Mrs. 
O.  W.  Jones,  each,  $2 ;  Tracia  Hauser,  Catharine  Randall,  Mrs.  Wilcoxon, 
Josie  Hauser,  Anna  Woods,  Jessie  Newkirk,  Mrs.  J.  T.  Hauser,  each,  $1 ; 
Henry  Kemna,  25  cents ;  Glen  Jones,  Herman  Kemna,  each,  10  cents ; 
Public  Collection,  $2.65.  Total,  $80.48. 

Pleasant  Grove  Class. — Wm.  Lynch,  Grandma  Lynch,  each,  $5 ;  Mary 
Olehy,  $3 ;  Ed.  Fairchild.  $2 ;  Mrs.  White,  Mrs.  D.  Talbott.  Mrs.  E.  Fair- 
child,  Wm.  Long.  each.  $1  :  Sam  Brewington,  Leona  Fairchild,  each,  50 
cents ;  Blanche  Fairchild,  Schearl  Olehy,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $20.50. 
Grand  total  from  charge,  $231.68. 

Danville  Station. — Collected  for  Foreign  Missions  from  Sunday  School 
and  otherwise,  $35.53 ;  Home  Missions,  $40.70 ;  Conference  Extension. 
$50 ;  Westfield  College,  $21.25 ;  Other  Benevolences,  $39.  Total,  $186.48. 


FISHER  CIRCUIT — W.  R.  Muncie,  Pastor. 

Fisher  Class. — W.  R.  Muncie  and  family,  E.  R.  Wade.  $5  each ;  H.  E. 
Trotter,  $2.50;  F.  .T.  Knapp,  M.  L.  Wilson  and  wife,  Wm.  Potts  and 
wife,  J.  W.  Kenward  and  family.  $2  each;  Ladies’  Aid  Society,  $3; 
Frank  Jones,  Sarah  and  Ada  Jones,  Delia  Kimble,  Aurenia  McClure, 
Orlo  Wade,  U.  V.  Gossard,  Luther  Wade,  James,  $1  each  ;  Bert  Chap¬ 
man,  Jennie  Gossard,  Maud  Kimble,  Pearl  Chapman,  50  cents  each  ;  Orel 
Robinet,  Martha  Gossard,  J.  L.  Horseman,  25  cents  each  ;  Sunday  School, 
$5.20.  Total.  $38.98. 

Oak  Grove  Class. — Audia  and  Jess  Loveless,  $3.50 ;  N.  C.  Fisler,  Jas. 
Naylor  and  wife,  $2.50  each  ;  Alva  Deffenbaugh,  John  Rittenhouse  and  wife, 
Frank  Hannel  and  wife,  Arthur  Rittenhouse,  $2  each  ;  James  H.  Thurs¬ 
ton,  Robert  Foster,  $1.50  each  ;  Clara  Deffenbaugh,  Thos.  Seibert,  R.  M. 
Anderson,  Dan  Crowley,  T.  G.  Naylor,  Lena  Hammel,  J.  F.  Swazey  and 
wife,  Carey  Warner,  Ada  Heriosh,  J.  B.  Hayes,  $1  each  ;  Lou  Crowley. 
75  cents ;  Mrs.  P.  F.  Hammel,  Ira  Fisher,  Alice  Anderson,  Mrs.  J.  W. 
Lane,  P.  F.  Hammel,  J.  W.  Lane,  Lessie  Anderson,  Dollie  Fisher,  Ruth 
Sims,  F.  L.  Warner,  Lottie  Hammel,  Ira  Dickerson,  Nathan  Hammel, 
Wesley  Thompson  and  wife,  50  cents  each  ;  Tillie  Reed.  30  cents ;  F.  J. 

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Campbell,  VVm.  Campbell,  Elizabeth  Romine,  25  cents  each  ;  Missionary 
Committee,  $7.05 ;  Ladies’  Aid,  $5 ;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  Society,  $2.40 :  S. 
School,  $5;  Faithful  Band  Sunday-School  Class,  $1.25;  Public  Collec¬ 
tion,  $7.35 ;  Other  Sources,  $9.20.  Total,  $72.95. 

Grand  Total,  $111.93. 

Forty  dollars  applied  on  Church  Extension,  balance  on  various  Confer¬ 
ence  claims. — W.  R.  Muncie,  Pastor,  Fisher  Circuit. 


FINDLAY  CIRCUIT—  G.  W.  Padrick,  Pastor. 

Findlay  Class. — S.  B.  Melcher,  $2;  Mrs.  C.  E.  Wright,  $1.50;  G.  W. 
Padrick,  W.  W.  Harbert,  Elizabeth  Bream,  Mary  A.  Stumpf,  J.  W. 
Underwood.  Mary  L.  Stumpf,  H  .D.  Lutz,  each,  $1 ;  Bertha  Harbert, 
Elzina  Underwood,  Frank  Shaffer,  Alta  Shafer.  Bertha  Coventry,  Walter 
Stumpf,  each,  50  cents ;  J.  C.  Tinney,  Catherine  Tinney,  Grace  Under¬ 
wood,  Hazel  Underwood,  Lester  Gorden,  Ruth  Wright,  Diamond  Stone, 
Mina  Stone,  Robert  Howe,  Mrs.  Howe,  Nina  Tinney,  John  Tinney, 
Maggie  Hayes,  Clara  Rider,  Frank  Towers,  each  25  cents.  Total,  $17.65. 

Kirks ville  Class. — A.  H.  Fultz,  $2;  John  Gustin,  $1.50;  Phillip  Immilt, 
Mollie  Evans,  Ella  Padrick,  each,  $1 ;  Elizabeth  Fultz,  Beulah  Immilt, 
May  Jeffers,  Rose  Evans.  James  Gustin,  Curtis  _Calahan,  Neva  Fultz, 
Andrew  Fultz,  Annie  Bruce,  Charles  Boyls,  each,  50  cents ;  Etta  Immilt. 
Nora  Evans,  Ida  Alvy,  Clark  Jeffers,  Flora  Jeffers,  A.  S.  Fredrick,  Grace 
Kidwell,  Cecil  Kidwell,  Avis  Donnell,  Edgar  Donnell,  Charity  Gustin, 
Edward  Kirkwood,  Julia  Kirkwood,  Vitura  Meritt,  Clarance  Elder,  Clara 
Elder,  Marion  Graven,  Etta  Kidwell,  Hazel  Yarnell,  Opha  Yarnell,  Rose 
White,  Tona  Donaker,  Freda  Bruce,  Wesley  Riley,  Mary  Riley,  Mary 
Grantham,  William  Sentill,  Merl  Sentill,  Golda  Francisco,  Ruby  Calla¬ 
han,  Nara  Richey,  Lula  Clark.  Olive  Clark,  Mary  Clark,  Wess  Clark, 
each,  25  cents;  Mary  Bailey,  15  cents;  Amanda  Bailey,  Marie  Immilt,. 
Fay  Immilt,  Andrew  Grantham,  each,  10  cents.  Total,  $20.35. 

G ALTON  CIRCUIT— N.  E.  Royer,  Pastor. 

Marion  Watson,  $1 ;  Elsie  Hunt,  $1 ;  Bragg  and  Helms  Bank,  $2 ; 
Elmer  Clodfeller,  $3.50 ;  Wm.  Hunt,  $1 ;  Jennie  Hunt,  $1 ;  A.  D.  Bradley. 
$1 ;  Homer  Stump,  50  cents;  James  Smith,  50  cents;  Joe  Telker,  50 
cents ;  Alva  Grisamore,  50  cents ;  Alva  Watson  and  wife,  $5 ;  Robert 
Watson  and  wife,  $5;  Mr.  Thompson,  $1;  Allen  Bradley,  $1;  Charles 
Ross,  $1 ;  A.  R.  Gillogly,  $1 ;  Mary  Pillips,  $10 ;  Sanford  Walker,  $2 ; 
W.  E.  Gosler,  $1  ;  G.  O.  Tarbox,  $3;  Alfred  Woolford,  $1  ;  Mary  Raney, 
$2;  Albert  Wright,  $1;  Aaron  Snick,  $1;  J.  W.  Keal,  $2.50;  John  Bailey, 
50  cents ;  Clarence  Munnes,  $1 ;  Amelia  Summitt,  $1 ;  Sarah  O'Bryan,  $1 : 
Spencer  O’Bryan,  $1  ;  J.  F.  Recard,  50  cents ;  O.  E.  Wachol,  50  cents ; 
J.  A.  O’Bryan,  $1 ;  Mina  O'Bryan,  50  cents  ;  J.  R.  Kennedy,  $1 ;  M.  A. 
Galbreth,  50  cents ;  Guss  Rasor,  $1 ;  Woolfords,  $6.50 ;  Flora  Bailey, 
25  cents;  Lena  Bailey,  25  cents;  Ben  Butcher,  45  cents;  Joseph  Low- 
man,  25  cents;  W.  M.  A.,  $30.17 ;  Joseph  Metz,  $1. 


LOCUST  GROVE  STATION— E.  E.  Bundy,  Pastor. 

Locust  Grove  Class. — E.  E.  Bundy  and  wife,  $34 ;  G.  H.  Jordan  and 
wife,  Cyrus  Weakley  and  wife,  Jacob  Longenbauch  and  wife,  each,  $20 ; 
Henry  Yantis  and  wife,  $12.15;  O.  T.  Weakley  and  brother,  $12;  Dr. 
G.  E.  Lyons  and  wife,  $10;  George  McGrath  and  wife,  $10;  W.  M. 
Shride  and  wife,  $7.50 ;  W.  R.  Bridgman  and  wife,  Jacob  Weakley  and 
wife,  J.  E.  Wagner  and  wife,  Edward  Cole  and  wife,  each,  $5 ;  Stanley 
Pontius,  $4.25;  W.  J.  Rittgers,  $4;  John  Bridgman  and  wife,  Walter 
Cole,  each,  $3 ;  John  Pinkston  and  wife,  Guthrie  Bridgman  and  wife. 
Edgar  Bridgman,  Myrtle  Cole,  each,  $2 ;  Burton  Longenbauch,  Jerry 
Smith,  W.  E.  Brown  and  wife,  each,  $1.50;  Etta  Rittgers,  Goldie  Bridg- 


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man,  Laura  Pontius,  Charles  Bridgman,  James  Jordan,  Mrs.  Frank 
Sloan.  Mrs.  Barbra  Primmer,  Harley  Aman  and  wife,  B.  S.  Cole  and 
wife,  O.  H.  Brinker  and  wife,  Josephine  Cole,  each,  $1;  Harley  Pinkston, 


.$64.20;  Josiah  Brewer  and  wife,  90  cents.  Grand  total,  $290.20. 


POTOMAC  CHARGE— H.  C.  McConaughy,  Pastor. 

Geo.  Surface,  Wm.  Willson,  each,  $10;  Ira  Blackford,  $8;  Hattie 
Linfoot,  Elmer  Moreland,  John  Albright,  each,  $5 ;  Wm.  Dimmet  and 
wife,  $8 ;  Rebecca  Blackford,  $3;  Mrs.  Ast  Duncan,  Susan  Allen,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Barnes,  ElizaLeth  Copeland,  Mrs.  John  Albright,  Will  Blackford, 
G.  E.  Jameson  and  wife,  Walter  Weller,  Frank  Groves,  Eli  Sperry,  each, 
82  ;  Gertrude  Harrison,  Ed.  Allen,  James  Leonard,  Maud  Sperry,  each, 
$1 ;  Edna  Surface,  Ruth  Surface,  Susan  Goodwine,  Marietta  Kirkhart. 
each,  50  cents;  John  Linfoot,  70  cents.  Total,  $80.70. 


PENFIELD  CIRCUIT— W.  Beasley,  Pastor. 

Geo.  M.  Lynn  and  wife,  $20.35;  G.  W.  Hadden  and  family,  $20;  John 
McLaren  and  wife,  $5.50 ;  Mose  Rowe  and  wife,  $4.25 ;  A.  M.  Ellis,  $4.50 ; 
T.  W.  Miller,  $3.50 ;  Charles  Ellis,  $3 ;  Mary  J.  Wilson,  $3 ;  L.  €. 
Hagerman  and  wife,  Lovina  Albert,  each,  $2.75 ;  John  Inman  and  wife. 
Mrs.  C.  E.  Bear,  each,  $2.50 ;  W.  Beasley  and  wife,  $2 ;  Alice  Penrod, 
'  $1.50 ;  G.  A.  Glenns,  $1.50 ;  Mrs.  Hendrix,  $1.25 :  Rachel  Gray,  Harry 
Putnam,  Oliver  Miller,  W.  G.  Mills,  J.  W.  Miller,  Wm.  Ellis,  Mrs.  M.  A. 
Shambaugh,  each,  $1 ;  Ibbie  LIulet,  75  cents  ;  Grace  Gray,  Gena  Clark. 
Bonnie  Clark,  Albert  Cook,  G.  Freeman,  Henry  Rose,  Sarah  Ellis,  Alice 
Moreland,  W.  II.  Miller,  G.  W.  Ellis,  each,  50  cents;  Mabel  Miller,  Josie 
Couch,  each,  25  cents  ;  Collected  by  Sunday-School  Children,  $8.00 ;  Paid 
by  Sunday  School,  $0.89.  Total,  $109.05. 

Armstrong  Class. — Mrs.  S.  A.  Wright,  $7;  J.  W.  Miller,  $5;  Mary 
Reiser,  L.  C.  Cooper,  each,  $3  ;  Ross  Donaldson,  C.  A.  Smith,  F.  C.  Green, 
each,  $2;  W.  L.  Donaldson,  $1.50;  James  Ridge,  $1.25;  Mrs.  Brunner, 
J.  W.  Booher,  Ruse  Wright,  A.  Frye,  Mrs.  M.  Ridge,  Milt  Edwards  and 
wife,  Mrs.  Owen  Wright,  each,  $1 ;  Miss  Erdwin,  70  cents ;  Myrtle  Frye. 
Mrs.  Frye,  Mrs.  B.  Booher,  Oscar  Keiser,  Carl  Keiser,  Mr.  Thompson. 
Mrs.  T.  F  oster,  Jane  Wallace,  Hussie  Frye,  each,  50  cents ;  Clarence 
Donaldson,  Lena  Oox,  each,  25  cents  ;  Collected  by  Children  of  Sunday 
School,  $3.21;  Given  by  Sunday  School,  $0.88.  Total,  $50.41. 

Grand  total,  $155.49. 


ROSSVILLE  CIRCUIT— B.  B.  Phelps,  Pastor. 

Rossville  Class. — A.  W.  Laflin,  George  Stump,  R.  L.  Philipps,  Mrs. 
I^abounty,  B.  B.  Phelps,  Young  Ladies’  Sunday-School  Class,  $5  each  ; 
Edward  Kilbury,  James  Ridge,  Charles  Dawson,  Frank  Ennes,  T.  J. 
Hushaw,  $3  each  ;  Rev.  L.  Byrd,  Mrs.  Hushaw,  George  Ray,  J.  Cooke,  $2 
each ;  Henry  Hughes,  Mrs.  Brewer,  Mrs.  Stump,  Mrs.  Weddle,  Gussie 
Laflin,  Maud  Erwin,  Mrs.  Phelps,  Mabel  Marshall,  N.  J.  Smith,  Jacob 
Poyner,  John  Culbert,  Mac  McCarlie,  Wm.  Harris,  T.  B.  Stephens,  Robert 
Philipps,  Emery  Germen,  James  Poyner,  $1  each  ;  Geraldine  Kirsey,  Mabel 
Labounty,  Silva  Vellers,  Oscar  Funk,  Ethel  Hamilton,  J.  H.  Eaton,  John 
Cox,  Bert  Redmon,  50  cents  each  ;  D.  Huffman,  25  cents.  Total,  $72.25. 

Union  Class. — B.  F.  Peterson,  $10 ;  Wm.  Judy  and  wife,  S.  O.  Wright 
and  wife,  O.  Crowley  and  wife,  N.  J.  Doom  and  wife,  $5  each ;  Mrs. 
Gials  Wright,  Walter  Reynolds,  Bert  Duncan,  $2  each;  Sallie  Harper, 
Nellie  Duncan,  M.  J.  Behemer,  Minnie  Reynolds,  Gerry  Harper,  Mrs. 


Conference  Proceedings 


Doam,  Lincoln  Hamhilton,  $1  each;  Charlie  Behimer,  50  cents;  Arthur 
Behimer,  25  cents.  Total,  $43.75. 

Bethel  Class. — 'Frank  Cheneworth,  $3 ;  M.  C.  Cheneworth,  Mr.  Nichols, 
$2  each ;  Robert  Wood,  Frank  Hoshour,  Albert  Wood,  Henry  Cheneworth, 
$1  each;  Charlie  Williamson,  John  Williamson,  50  cents  each.  Total,  $12! 

REDMON  CIRCUIT— H.  D.  Hudson,  Pastor. 

Collected  for  Home  Missions,  $25 ;  Special,  $40.  Total,  $65. 

Collected  for  Foreign  Missions,  $27.68 ;  Ladies  Missionary  Association, 
si 7.  Total  for  Foreign  Missions,  $44.68. 

Grand  total  for  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  $109.68. 

WHITE  HEATH— D.  C.  Ade,  Pastor. 

White  Heath  Class. — Sunday  School,  $6.05 ;  t).  C.  Ade,  $5 ;  Hiram 
Curl,  $4 ;  H.  M.  Curl,  $3 ;  J.  A.  Cox,  $2.50 ;  Stella  Bushee,  $1 ;  Eunice 
Bateman,  $1 ;  Allene  Peel,  $1 ;  W.  W.  Whitby,  $1 ;  Math  Spencer,  $1  ; 
Frank  Flanigan,  $1 ;  Mrs.  McDonald,  50  cents ;  Bessie  McDonald,  50 
cents ;  Mary  Spencer,  25  cents ;  F.  M.  Blacker,  50  cents.  Total,  $28.30. 

Fairview  Class. — Frank  Strohl,  $3  ;  Frank  Richard,  $2 ;  Sarah  Strohl. 
$1 ;  Elias  Burrell,  $1  ;  Chas.  Wilson,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Joe  Strohl,  50  cents. 
Total,  $8.50. 

Grand  total,  $36.80. 


OLNEY  DISTRICT 

OLNEY  CIRCUIT.  Annapolis  Charge — B.  C.  Peters,  Pastor. 

Grace  Chapel  Class. — John  Bierbaum,  $5;  John  Eitle,  Christopher 
Amacher,  Mike  Moore,  Mrs.  Lena  Eitle,  each,  $2 ;  Geo.  Kile,  $1.50 ; 
Dan  Neff,  Mrs.  Geo.  Renner,  each  $1 ;  Edith  Eitle,  Ruth  Eitle,  Lizzie 
Moore,  Sallie  Bierbaum,  Christena  Deitz,  Orman  Eitle,  G.  Renner,  Mrs. 
Amacher,  each,  50  cents ;  Clarene  Eitle,  Clara  Bierbaum,  Geo.  Eitle, 
Amelia  Renner,  Ceril  Moore,  Katie  Esterday,  Mae  Clouse.  Mannie  Clouse, 
Lida  Clouse,  Mrs.  Williams,  each  25  cents;  Fred  Moore,  Versie  Neff, 
Ruth  Moore,  Maggie  Neff,  John  Amacher,  each,  10  cents ;  Harold  Moore, 
5  cents.  Total,  $23.55.  * 

Union  Class. — Margaret  Cowden,  C.  C.  Hodges,  Emma  Hodges,  Minnie 
Snyder,  B.  C.  Peters,  each,  $5 ;  Mrs.  Nora  Brown,  Daniel  Brown,  each, 
$2.50 ;  F.  M.  Buckner,  Vern  Wilson,  Leroy  Drummond,  Wm.  McNary, 
each,  $1 ;  Sadie  Meeker,  75  cents ;  J.  L.  Drummond,  Mrs.  Elizabeth 
Crumrin,  Bessie  Brown,  Leancler  Meeker,  Mrs.  Davis,  each,  50  cents ; 
Maggie  Drummond,  Merle  McNary,  Ada  Meeker,  Ethel  Meeker,  Emmaline 
Drummond,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $38.50. 

Annapolis  Class. — Henry  Hill,  $2 ;  Earnest  Wilbert  and  wife,  each. 
$1.50;  Mrs.  Elmer  Barett,  Sherman  Hallowell,  Mrs.  Dr.  Davis,  Mrs. 
Bline,  each,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Gower,  Mrs.  David  Barett,  Fred  Smith,  Mabel 
Newlin,  Mrs.  Sarah  Smith,  each,  50  cents ;  W.  M.  Shook,  Willis  Myers. 
Mrs.  Boyl,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $12.25. 

Licking  Class. — Delilah  Bowman,  Charles  Bowman,  Mertie  Bowman, 
Maude  Bowman,  each,  $1 ;  Lulu  Swope,  Adeal  Piersoll,  II.  A.  Smother- 
#man,  each,  50  cents;  Geo.  Wells,  25  cents;  Mrs.  Minta  Morris,  Mrs.  Laura 
’Hamilton,  each,  15  cents  ;  David  Hamilton,  25  cents.  Total,  $6.30. 

Bellaire  Class. — I.  A.  Bline,  $1;  Wily  Wyman,  Elzora  Wyman,  Ned 
Matheny,  Mrs.  Smith,  Ettie  Matheny,  T,  N.  Matheny,  Verda  Richards, 
Alma'  Payne,  Nancy  Bell,  Maude  Smith,  Nellie  Perdieu,  M.  J.  Wikle, 
P.  A.  Cooley,  Samuel  Richards,  Lester  Hamilton,  Clema  Hamilton,  each. 


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50  cents;  Fanny  Trigg,  Flossy  Matheny,  Dalphana  Kelly,  Macie  Matheiiv 
Elizabeth  Kelly.  Lucy  Goodwin,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $10.50. 

Sum  total,  $91.10. 

Five  dollars  on  elder’s  salary,  the  rest  on  other  Conference  claims 
Conference  assessments  full. 

BIRDS  CIRCUIT— G.  W.  Ball,  Pastor. 

Birds  Class. — G.  W.  Ball  and  wife,  $2;  Birds  Sunday  School,  $2  * 
W.  R.  Seitzinger,  $5;  Rev.  C.  R.  Miller  and  wife,  $10;  .T.  IL  Weirv’ 
Willard  Osman,  each,  $1 ;  ,J.  B.  Loar  and  wife,  $1 ;  W.  E.  Weiry,  John 
Baker.  George  Mayfield,  Ray  Henrv,  Alonzo  Hayden,  each,  50'  cents; 
Hally  Day  Offering,  $3;  Birthday  Offering,  $5;  F.  D.  Fitch  and  wife. 
$6;  Ralph  Hudson  and  wife,  $5;  Orvil  Carlyle,  50  cents;  Chas.  Geiser. 
50  cents  Total  $44  50 

Otterbein  Class. — G.  W.  Ball  and  wife,  $2 ;  William  Seitzinger,  Rev. 
Josiah  Conrad,  each,  $3;  N.  Seitzinger,  Lora  Seitzinger,  A.  M.  Highsmith. 
J.  H.  Crow,  S.  K.  Shimer,  Margret  Conrad,  each,  $1  ;  Miss  Lonvina 
Seitzinger,  Milt  Stevenson,  Sarah  Highsmith,  Susie  Wampler,  William 
Lindsay,  Clara  Lindsay,  Anna  E.  Seitzinger,  each,  50  cents  ;  Miss  Della 
Stevens,  John  Crow,  each,  25  cents;  Mike  Seitzinger,  $1.  Total,  $19. 

East  Pinkstaff  Class. — G.  W.  Ball  and  wife,  $2 ;  Ella  Pinkstaff,  $1.25 ; 
Anna  Pinkstaff.  $2 ;  Rosean  Willis,  Vina  Pinkstaff,  C.  L.  Pinkstaff,  each. 
50  cents.  Total,  $6.75. 

Union  Class. — G.  W.  Ball  and  wife,  John  E.  Wesley  and  wife,  $2 ; 
.lohn  Simons,  Mattie  Simons.  Elijah  Wesley,  Bert  Wesley,  (Vastus 
Reynolds,  Emma  Reynolds,  Sarah  Kent,  Harry  Simons,  Earnest  Wesley. 
Maude  Simons,  Purse  Clark,  Thomas  Kent,  Oscar  Roush,  Mary  E. 
Maxwell,  each,  $1  ;  Elmer  Wesley.  Genevria  Wesley,  Cora  Steffv.  Miss 
Lola  Siler,  Miss  Lena  Caywood,  Susan  Kent,  Miss  Iona  Reynolds,  Frank 
Rich,  Alphus  Jewell,  each,  50  cents;  L.  N.  Tohill,  $2;  Collection,  $1.56; 
Alice  Hunt,  Sarah  Caywood,  each,  25  cents;  Collection,  93  cents.  Total, 
a;  27. 

Pearl  Chapel  Class. — G.  W.  Ball  and  wife,  $2 ;  M.  L.  South,  $2 ;  Elmer 
Rich,  $2 ;  Pearl  Chapel  Sunday  School,  $5.27 ;  Grover  Clark,  John 
Louranee,  Delbert  South,  Etta  Lourance,  Fannie  Simons,  J.  D.  High¬ 
smith,  A.  J.  Crum,  John  Weirick,  each,  $1;  William  Wesley,  $1‘.25 ; 
N.  D.  Crum,  Louvina  Johnson,  Ed.  Dornell,  D.  L.  Johnson,  each,  50 
cents ;  George  Ford,  I^ancy  Carter.  Nellie  Rich,  each,  25  cents.  Total. 
$23.27. 

Grand  total,  $134.30.  Paid  on  Church  Extension,  $42 ;  on  Foreign 
Missions,  $17 ;  on  Plome  Missions,  $18.30 ;  balance  on  Conference  claims. 

BLUFORD  CIRCUIT— O.  J.  Bogard,  Pastor. 

Oakdale  Class. — R.  S.  Young,  $5 ;  Mary  Partridge,  $4 ;  Edward  Holms. 
$3;  O.  J.  Bogard,  C.  W.  Jones,  E.  B.  Livesay,  Ransom  Wood,  $2;  Linnie 
Partridge,  $1.50;  Minnie  Livesay,  Ira  Partridge,  Nannie  Partridge,  Rob¬ 
ert  Partridge,  B.  F.  Case,  Harry  Brooks,  Effie  Partridge,  Henry  Snod- 
smith.  W.  S.  Partridge,  Oakdale  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  Society,  each,  $1 ;  Tinnie 
Partridge,  50  cents  ;  Claud  Maxey.  25  cents.  Total  $32.75. 

Bluford  Class. — B.  G.  Wood,  B.  M.  Hughes,  each,  $10 ;  J.  Coffman. 
$3 ;  Non  Miller,  J.  P.  Watson,  W.  H.  Barton,  each,  $2 ;  Larv  Blyth. 
R.  C.  Ashby,  each,  $1.50 ;  Infant  Sunday-School  Class,  C.  L.  Middleton. 
J.  A.  Smith,  G.  A.  Barton,  B.  F.  Miller,  A.  A.  Wood,  Thomas  Willson. 
Geo.  O'Donnell,  Docia  Davis,  Lizzie  Davidson,  Bertha  Coffman,  each,  $1  ; 
Bertha  Middleton.  Walter  Wood,  each,  50  cents.  Total.  $45. 

Union  Grove  Class. — L.  C.  Carpenter,  $5 ;  J.  W.  Surcy,  L©n  Lernar. 
each,  $2 ;  Bill  Williamson,  R.  Scrivner,  J.  W.  Patterson,  Geo.  Batka,  each. 
$1 ;  John  Carpenter.  Mintia  Surcy,  George  Hoppkins,  each,  50  cents ;  Bell 
Weber,  25  cents.  Total,  $15.75. 

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Mt.  Nebo  Class. — B.  F.  Witter,  J.  W.  Pillson,  Frank  Witter,  each,  $1 ; 
Mrs.  Clinker,  Jno.  Seel,  Mrs.  Carson,  Bell  Shafer,  Mrs.  Witter,  each,  50 
cents;  Floid  Judd,  Alice  Carson,  Jocie  Carson,  J.  Zebbert,  Mary  Seel, 
each,  25  cents.  Total,  $6.75. 

Oak  Hill  Class. — Alex.  Page,  $1 ;  Jas.  Smith,  50  cents  ;  .T.  R.  Burns, 
25  cents.  Total,  $1.75.  Grand  total,  $102. 


EDGE  WOOD  CIRCUIT — Elizabeth  Thompson,  Pastor. 

Wabash  Class. — Anna  Klinger,  $1.25;  Geo.  and  Rosa  Shoemaker,  50 
cents ;  W.  H.  and  Lew  Greider.  $1 ;  Lettie  Nave,  20  cents ;  Lottie  More¬ 
land,  $1;  Jack  and  Sarah  McElroy,  $1;  John  and  Lizzie  Broom,  $1.00; 
Floyd,  Kate,  and  Viva  Burch,  $1.25 ;  Marvin  Burch,  $1 ;  Win.  Osman, 
$1.38 ;  Mollie  Whorton,  GO  cents. 

Lynn  Branch. — Cartha  Smith,  $1.04,  Lulu  B.  Sapp,  $1.04;  Gracie 
Peyton,  $2.08;  Anna  Robertson,  55  cents;  Carrol,  Arminth  and  Wille 
Cole.  $1.85;  Mary  Bavles,  25  cents;  John  Crum,  $1.28;  Geo.  Nannie  and 
Claud  Pitcher,  $1. 

Locust  Grove. — Chas.  Flora  and  Florice  Brown,  $1.18 ;  Phebe  Crum, 
$1.28;  Wm.  Hogan,  $1;  R.  D.  Ronk,  50  cents;  Ivan  Ronk,  60  cents. 

Arcadia  Class  amount  omitted  by  mistake. 


FLORA  CIRCUIT— W.  C.  Harbert,  Pastor. 

A.  Robinson,  $5;  J.  R.  Babcock,  Eli  Boon,  Jessie  Snell  and  wife,  G.  O. 
Lewis.  Basken  Lambert,  each,  $2 ;  J.  Cassady,  Allison  Pearce,  Rosan 
Stanford,  Lillie  Burell,  Mrs.  Eli  Boon,  Emma  Pearce,  Mrs.  Thom.  Kneff, 
Pearly  Baylor.  Emma  Baylor,  Ed.  Shupe,  Ida  Goudy,  Chas.  Kittly,  Chas. 
Clark,  Free  Robinson,  Abraham  Kamble,  Glen  Bissey,  A.  G.  Smith,  Mrs. 
A.  Kanble,  Alice  Bissey,  C.  O.  Lee.  each,  $1 ;  W.  C.  Harbert,  $5 ;  A.  L. 
Harbert,  Hattie  Harbert,  each,  50  cents;  C.  C.  Harbert,  25  cents; 
Webster  Chambert,  Roy  Pearce,  Mrs.  Frank  Dobbs,  May  Stanford, 
Marguerite  Burrell,  Grace  Clark,  Mary  Clark,  Mrs.  Carney,  Hannah 
Gill,  Chas.  Clawson,  J.  M.  Clawson,  Mrs.  Hough,  Ida  Tipton,  Mary 
Vanwinkle,  each,  50  cents;  James  Trains,  Mr.  Curry,  lea  Kneff,  J.  H. 
Kneff,  Alice  Kneff,  Henry  Bissey,  Laura  Skelton,  Mrs.  Clawson,  Mi's. 
Stanford,  Otto  Wendle,  each  25  cents ;  Byron  Kneff,  15  cents ;  Mrs. 
Stanford,  Daisy  Vanwinkle,  Alta  Vanwinkle,  each,  10  cents ;  Brother 
Boner  and  wife,  $4 ;  Public  Collections,  $8.76.  Total,  $64.71. 

FLORA  MISSION— C.  N.  Gladwell,  Pastor. 

Flora  Class. — C.  N.  Gladwell  and  wife,  $10 ;  Stacy  Barr  and  wife,  $2  ; 
Thomas  Crage  and  wife,  C.  H.  Stillwell  and  wife,  Al.  Brown  and  wife, 
Benjamin  Haynes,  Howard  Henry,  Florence  Lindsey,  Cora  Smith. 
Minnie  Denbow,  M.  O.  Cullison,  Corrilla  Guiot,  Milan  Boon,  B.  L. 
Dewese,  Abe  Kearney,  Annie  Smith,  Iva  Shehorn,  E.  P.  Jackson,  Mrs. 
J.  Fisher,  each,  $1 ;  Lloid  Goddard,  50  cents.  Total,  $29.50. 

Woodlawn  Class. — H.  L.  Featherly  and  wife,  $4.50 ;  Ira  Merrihew  and 
wife,  $3.25 ;  H.  H.  Cheeley  and  wife,  $3.10 ;  C.  N.  Howe  and  wife,  $2.55  ; 
J.  O.  Howe  and  wife,  $2.50 ;  Frank  Brintson  and  wife,  Fib  Howe  and 
wife,  Ethan  Merrihew  and  wife,  each,  $2 ;  Pearlie  Ritter,  George  Linder, 
William  Tinkler,  Moses  Bartley,  John  Gibson,  Luther  Howe,  Lawson 
Literal,  Homer  Daniels,  each,  $1 ;  J.  J.  McCall  and  wife,  Arthur  Camp¬ 
bell,  each,  $1.10;  Henry  Bradley  and  wife,  Herman  Howe,  each,  75  cents; 
A.  L.  Wearing,  65  cents ;  Vic  Belden,  Lyle  Howe,  each,  50  cents ;  Winna 
Howe,  Edna  Howe,  each,  25  cents ;  Sunday  School,  $3.50 :  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U., 
$20.  Total,  $52.60. 

Grand  total,  $82.10. 


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LA  WRENCEVI LLE  CHARGE-  -S.  O.  Stoltz,  Pastor. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  $5 ;  Geo.  Lathrop,  $3 ;  Geo.  Lappin,  $2.50 ;  Wm.  Lathrop, 
John  Greenlee,  each,  $2;  Harry  Lathrop,  Mrs.  Geo.  Lathrop.  Wm.  Irwin, 
Mrs.  Lappin,  Mrs.  Dalrymple,  Clarence  Judy,  each,  $1;  Nettie  Lathrop, 
Mrs.  R  .L.  Rankin,  Mrs.  John  Greenlee,  Belle  D.  Flyte,  Clara  Greenlee, 
Mrs.  Pose  Greenlee,  Stewart  Greenlee,  each,  50  cents;  Mabel  Lathrop, 
Irene  Lathop,  Wm.  Hankins,  Mrs.  Irvin,  each  25  cents.  Total  for 
Fail-view  Class,  $25;  Fail-view  Class,  Home  Missions,  $15.70;  Fairview 
Class,  Foreign  Missions,  $6.52;  Lewrenceville  Class,  Foreign  Missions, 
$2.45 ;  Lawrenceville  Collections,  $15.40.  Grand  total,  $65.07. 

Paid  Conference  Claims,  $29  ;Paid  on  Home  Missions,  $15.70 ;  Paid  on 
Foreign  Missions,  $10.37  ;  Paid  on  Westfield  College,  $10.  Total,  $65.07. 

NEW  HEBRON  CIRCUIT — II.  W.  Broadstone,  Pastor. 

New  Hebron  Class. — John  Kelchner,  $2 ;  C.  C.  Lawrence,  Minnie 
Lawrence,  Robert  Mitchell,  Emma  Mitchell,  Allen  Henderson,  D.  C. 
Grutaugh,  Mrs.  Grufcaugh,  D.  R.  Johnson,  Jane  Johnson,  each,  $1;  Emma 
Kennedy,  William  Henderson,  each,  50  cents ;  Eunice  Lawrence,  Luther 
Lawrence,  Medford  Lawrence,  Scott  Lawrence,  Francis  Mitchell.  Effie 
Parker,  Lena  Collins,  Margaret  Wilson,  Irene  Cunningham,  each,  25 
cents.  Total,  $14.25. 

Eureka  Class. — Dan  Caterheinreich  and  wife,  Geo.  Kneirim  and  wife, 
J.  W.  Inboden  and  wife,  John  Buck,  Eureka  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.,  each,  $5 ; 
,T.  B.  Taggart  and  wife,  Eri  Mitchell,  each,  $2 ;  Mrs.  Nash  and  daughter, 
$1 ;  Effie  Walter,  Homer  Inboden,  each,  50  cents.  Total,  $31. 

Hardinsville  Class. — T.  P.  Mulvane  and  wife,  George  McColpin  and 
wife,  each,  $5 ;  Grant  Brown,  Mabel  Brown,  each,  $2 ;  Harriet  McCarty. 
Dan  Miller  and  wife,  each,  $1 ;  Mary  Pfouts,  50  cents ;  Ethel  Fritz,  15 
cents ;  Martha  Fritz,  Sanford  Brown,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $17. 

Zion  Class. — D.  W.  Richart  and  wife,  Priscilla  Weirich,  each,  $10 ; 
W.  C.  Adams  and  wife,  D.  A.  Maxwell  and  wife,  Julia  Ducummon, 
Walter  Ducummon,  each,  $5;  Wm.  Weirich  and  wife,  $2.50;  Rosa  Mann, 
$2 ;  Ira  Reuchen,  Frank  Vanwinkle,  Effie  Vanwinkle,  H.  H.  Maxwell, 
Chloe  Hedges,  Ethel  Weirich,  Grace  Weirich  .each,  $1  ;  Andy  White,  75 
cents ;  Della  Miller,  50  cents  ;  Hattie  Haught,  25  cents.  Total,  $53. 

H.  W.  Broadstone  and  family,  Levi  McC'olpin,  each,  $10;  W.  E.  Has¬ 
kins,  wife  and  daughter,  $5 ;  Livona  Bascom,  Ulysses  Walter  and  wife, 
J.  W.  McColpin  and  wife,  each,  $2;  Elizabeth  Walter,  Joe  Harmon  and 
wife,  Francis  McColpin  and  wife,  Ruth  Miller,  Bessie  Broadstone,  C.  A. 
Thompson  and  wife,  each,  $1;  Ethel  Dean,  $1.50;  Cora  Siler,  Mrs.  Clark, 
each,  50  cents.  Total,  $39.50. 

Grand  total,  $154.80.  Collections,  $20.  Great  grand  total,  $174.80. 

Paid  on  Conference  Extension,  $60;  Home  Missions,  $25;  Foreign 
Missions,  $27 ;  Westfield  College,  $22 ;  Balance  on  Conference  Claims. 


OLNEY  STATION— W.  L.  Duncan,  Pastor. 

C.  C.  Rose,  $10 ;  Glenn  Taylor  and  wife,  $10 ;  Rev.  J.  M.  Creery 
and  wife,  $5 ;  Rev.  W.  L.  Duncan  and  wife,  $5 ;  N.  B.  Rose  and  wife. 
$5 ;  Henry  Taylor  and  wife,  $5 ;  Rev.  H.  Coen,  $1 ;  Margaret  Coen,  $1  ; 

Viola  Logs  ton*  $1 ;  Margaret  Hartz,  $1 ;  M.  R.  Snavely  and  wife,  $1  : 

M.  T.  Adamson,  $1  ;  Loretta  Armsey,  $1;  Mr.  Frank  Kidd  and  wipe,  $1  : 

F.  Ii.  Peters,  $1 ;  Mr.  Lem  Coventry  and  wife,  $1 ;  Nellie  and  Josephine 

M.  Creery,  $1 ;  Mary  Bohnsteadt,  $1 ;  Charles  Holmsteadt,  $1 ;  Ella 
Buckels  and  husband,  $1;  Eda  Berry,  $1;  James  Hicks,  $1;  Wm.  Seeley. 
$1  ;  Wm.  Tavlor,  $1 ;  Lucinda  Tinpit,  $1 ;  Lovina  Fleming.  $1 ;  Zora 
Myers,  $1;  Miss  Dot  Foley,  $1;  Lydia  West,  $1;  Moody  Toy  tor,  $1  : 
Floy  Toytor,  $1 ;  Thessie  Toytor,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Eva  Farris,  $1 ;  Mary  Wolf. 


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$1.50;  Dora  Koestge,  $2;  Geo.  Higgins  and  wife,  $1.50;  Roy  and  Amy 
Deisher,  $1.50 ;  Lydia  Mitchel,  50  cents ;  Hila  Cancanon,  50  cents ;  Chas. 
Gody  and  wife,  50  cents ;  Lorain  Wolverton,  50  cents ;  George  Heiselman 
and  wife,  50  cents;  Ma^vand  Kuban  and  wife,  50  cents;  Margaret  Berner, 
50  cents;  Samantha  Myers,  50  cents;  Ethel  Ensor,  50  cents;  Jossie 
Ridgly,  50  cents ;  W.  M.  Berry,  50  cents ;  L.  W.  Dougloss  and  wife, 
50  cents;  Lina  Bernard,  50  cents;  Clava  Ensor,  50  cents;  Robert  Seeley, 
50  cents ;  James  Host  and  wife,  50  cents ;  Alpha  Berry,  50  cents ;  Bessie 
Dotv.  50  cents;  Pa  en  Snively,  50  cents;  Alta  Mitchel,  35  cents;  Helen 
Ensor,  25  cents  ;  Edith  Herrin,  25  cents ;  Marie  Ward,  25  cents  ;  Mrs. 
John  Bradley,  25  cents;  Florence  Herrin,  25  cents;  Flossie  Weogle,  25 
cents ;  Alice  Houser,  25  cents ;  Mrs.  Bell  Wheeler,  15  cents ;  J.  R. 
Schaeffer  and  wife,  $1 ;  John  Hicks  and  wife,  $1 ;  Rebecca  Stroud,  50 
cents ;  J.  O.  Ensor  and  wife,  50  cents.  Total,  $88.25. 

$76  applied  on  Conference  Assessments,  the  rest  on  Westfield  College 
Assessment  and  the  following  interests  named  :  Paid  to  Presiding  Elder, 
$61 ;  Y.  P.  C.  E.,  Lawrenceville  Church,  $46;  Special  Collection  for  Home 
Missions,  $8.50;  the  Y.  P.  C.  E.,  Foreign  Missions,  $11;  for  Westfield 
College,  total.  $52.25;  Special  for  Church  Erection,  $6.20;  Arion  Quartet 
for  Entertainment,  $10 ;  Collected  by  Sunday  School  for  Home  Missions, 
$75.79 ;  Foreign  Missions,  $58.81 ;  W.  M.  A.,  Foreign  Missions,  $22.41 . 
Total,  $351.96 ;  Brought  Forward,  $88.25;  total  for  All  Purposes,  $440.21. 


OBLONG  STATION — G.  L.  Sti^e,  Pastor. 

George  Ziegler,  $10 ;  Chris  Shire,  $10 ;  W.  B.  Jones,  $10 ;  James 
Perrine,  $6;  H.  C.  Freeman,  $5;  Isaac  Dedrick,  $5;  C.  C.  Voorhis,  $5; 
Clarence  Sheets,  $5;  Minerva  Wall,  $10;  T.  J.  Hook,  $4;  C.  H.  Botten- 
field,  $5 ;  Mrs.  E.  M.  Muchmore.  $3.50 ;  Mary  A.  Kirts,  $1 ;  A.  F. 
Lefever,  $3 ;  J.  C.  Shire,  $2.50;  Versa  Musgrave,  $1;  Drusy  Ziegler,  $1  ; 
S.  R.  Grieves,  $5;  Laura  B.  Murphy,  $1.50;  Bertha  Kirk,  $1  ;  Chas.  T. 
Waldvop,  $1:  Elizabeth  Hawkins,  $1;  Lyda  Price,  50  cents;  Caroline 
Cortelyou,  15  cents;  Rev.  J.  F.  Tohill,  $9;  Guy  Tuell,  $1.  Total,  $107,15. 

OLNEY  CIRCUIT— H.  A.  Bogard,  Pastor. 

Wynoose  Class. — Rev.  S.  T.  Bourne,  $6;  Mrs.  A.  Bourne,  $4;  J.  W. 
Seneff  and  wife,  $5 ;  Nellie  Ritter,  N.  R.  Frost,  Lewis  Metzger  and  wife, 
each,  $2 ;  Samuel  Bourne,  $1.60 ;  Rev.  H.  D.  Bourne,  $1.50 ;  Minnie 
Frost,  Cora  Stuffy,  Mose  Taylor,  Ella  Taylor,  Eddie  Bourne,  Walter 
Bourne,  O.  T.  Bourne  and  wife,  Geo.  Ash  and  wife,  Brother  Brooks  and 
wife,  Homer  Davis,  Sifter  Homes,  E.  M.  Ash,  Mrs.  Dr.  Cruse,  each,  $1 ; 
Elva  Ash  Louvina  Taylor,  Edith  Frost,  each,  75  cents ;  J.  C.  Davis, 
Gertie  Bourne,  Mrs.  Homer  Davis,  Maggie  Ash,  each,  50  cents ;  Ethel 
Frost,  W.  J.  Taylor,  Bulla  and  Clifford  Ritter,  Miltie  Taylor,  Bell 
Hughes,  Glen  and  Agnes  Bourne,  Homer  Orr,  each,  25  cents ;  G.  N. 
Ash,  Gladis  and  Emma  Bourne,  Lea  Frost,  each,  10  cents ;  O.  P.  Bourne, 
$5  for  Missions ;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  for  Home  Missions,  special,  $12.50 ;  by 
Collection,  $4.  Total,  $70.50. 

Pleasant  View  Class. — M.  S.  Taylor,  $3 ;  Emma  Taylor,  $2.50 ;  Harry 
Shan  and  wife,  $5 ;  Sammie  Shan  and  wife,  $5 ;  Mrs.  C.  T.  Montgomery, 
John  Hawkins,  each  $2 ;  Harry  Hawkins  and  wife,  James  Dugan  and 
wife,  K.  C.  Rule  and  wife,  Lillie  Hawkins,  Nellie  Montgomery,  Loy 
Montgomery,  W.  O.  Taylor,  M.  L.  Taylor,  Clide  Henry,  Fred  Hawkins, 
Henry  Alvoid  and  wife,  C.  T.  Montgomery,  each,  $1  ;  Mrs.  Geo.  Rule, 
Elizabeth  Vanblaricum,  each,  75  cents ;  Joseph  Vanblaricum,  Dessie  and 
Nellie  Taylor,  Lulu  Ring,  Mrs.  Fred  Hawkins,  Jule  Alvoid,  Minnie 
Henry,  Anna  Patterson,  Elie  Ring,  Mrs.  Maggie  Rule,  Will  Ilusk  and 
wife,  each,  50  cents ;  Richard  and  Orvil  Hawkins,  Frank  Rule,  Ida  Ring, 

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Mrs.  Nancy  Hawkins,  Hairy  Ring,  each,  25  cents;  Eva  Rule,  Ethel  Rule, 
Jasper  Hawkins,  each,  10  cents;  Collection,  $3.15.  Total,  $47.95. 

Elbow  Class. — Mr.  ancl  Mrs.  Geo,  Bohlander,  each,  $7 ;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
N.  L.  Montgomery,  Mrs.  H.  A.  Hull,  each,  $5;  J.  M.  Gallager,  $3;  Lizzie 
Tompson,  $2.60;  Mrs.  Geo.  Wilson,  $2.50;  Brother  Misner,  $2;  Geo. 
Wilson,  Oscar  Reid,  Mattie  Reid,  Edward  Jennings,  Harry  Shoffstoll, 
Grace  Shoffstoll,  Maud  Gallager,  each,  $1;  Lizzie  Howe,  Florence  Boh¬ 
lander.  Glais  and  Joy  Gallager,  Odis  Stacy,  Sarah  Stewart,  Milton 
Michaels  and  wife,  Sister  Bolbey,  Bessie  Ramsey,  Homer  Berry,  Richard 
and  Roy  Shoffstoll,  E.  F.  Stewart.  IV.  IV.  Montgomery,  each,  50  cents ; 
D.  B.  Jones  and  wife,  Raymond  and  Winnie  Stewart,  Nola,  Arfca  and 
Ethel  Bolby,  each,  25  cents ;  Rachel  Shoffstol,  Florence  and  Arthur 
Stewart,  each,  10'cents;  Collection,  $8.85;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  for  Missions, 
$2.50.  Total,  $67.50. 

Union  Class. — Airs.  Edd  Boley,  $1;  Mrs.  John  Bower,  75  cents;  J.  W. 
Poff  and  wife.  John  Lucas  and  wife,  M.  L.  Poff  and  wife,  Will  Parks  and 
wife,  each,  50  cents  ;  Victoria,  Mattie,  Hattie  and  Hubert  Boley,  Blanch 
and  Myrtle  Bogard,  each,  25  cents;  Collection,  $3.50.  Total,  $10.75. 

Grand  total,  $196.70.  Applied  on  Home  Missions,  $41.31 ;  on  Foreign 
Missions,  $25;  Westfield  College,  $31.10;  Balance  on  Conference  Claims. 

PATTON  CIRCUIT — J.  F.  Fowler,  Pastor. 

Patton  Class. — Patton  Sunday  School,  $3 ;  Chas.  Lingleson  and  wife. 
$1.50;  Wm.  Lingleson  and  wife,  $2;  Sam  Siler,  50  cents;  Jos.  Isham. 
50  cents  ;  Cliff  Buchanan,  50  cents ;  Mary  Lingleson,  50  cents ;  Martha 
Lingleson,  50  cents;  Jennie  Lingleson,  25  cents.  Total,  $9.25. 

Nye  Chapel  Class. — Jos.  Letherland,  $5;  Louise  Letherland,  $2;  Dale 
Case,  $1.  Total,  $8. 

Adam’s  Corner  Class. — Mary  Arnold,  $2 ;  L.  A.  Sandlin,  $5 ;  Wm. 
Showalter,  $3;  Adam’s  Corner  Sunday  School,  $5;-Henry  Veighman,  $5; 
Andrew  Reiber,  $5;  Etta  King,  $1;  Wm.  King,  $1 ;  Dwight  King,  50 
-cents;  Haley  Reiber,  $1;  S.  A.  Letherland,  $1;  Sadie  Hauff,  50  cents; 
Kate  Showalter,  50  cents ;  Isaiah  Peachey,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Peachey,  $25 ;  S.  A. 
Albin,  $1 ;  Ed.  Birkhimer,  $1  ;  Emma  Birkhimer,  $1 ;  Ray  Birkhimer,  25 
cents ;  Laura  Sandlin,  $1.  Total,  $36. 

Pleasant  Grove  Class.- — Della  Hindeliter,  50  cents ;  E.  Guy  Pixley,  50 
cents;  Jos.  Daily,  $1;  Lon  Daily,  $1;  Jennie  Mondy,  $1  *  S.  C.  Marx, 
$2;  Jonathan  Moyer,  $1;  Paul  Blakney,  $1;  Wm.  Smith,  $1;  Levitt 
Smith,  $1  ;  Luther  Mondy,  $1 ;  Jos.  Barnett,  $1 ;  Rosander  Smith,  50 
cents  ;  Mrs.  Barnett,  50  cents  ;  Doc.  Cunninrrham,  50  cents  ;  Mrs.  Elisha 
Mondy,  50  cents;  Anna  Smith,  50  cents;  Claris  Cunningham,  10  cents; 
Ruth  Smith,  25  cents;  May  Smith,  25  cents;  Elsa  Cunningham,  25  cents; 
Steve  Rcrtlric,  $1;  Oren  Barnett,  25  cents  ;  James  Stine,  25  cents;  Harley 
Smith,  25  cents.  Total,  $17.10. 


PARKERSBURG  CIRCUIT— I.  S.  McIver,  Pastor. 

I.  T.  Lambert,  $5 ;  George  Koertge  and  wife,  $3 ;  O.  C.  Rose, 

E.  C.  Shipley,  $3;  Hanah  Shipley,  $2;  Ella  Koertge,  $2;  Jessey  Cham¬ 
berlin,  $1.50;  Martha  Lambert,  $5;  Alma  Koertge,  $1;  Jennie  Markman, 
25  cents;  Chloe  Riehl,  25  cents;  Lena  Jones.  $1;  Jennie  Smith,  50  cents ; 
Minnie  Woods,  25  cents ;  Bessie  Lambert,  25  cents ;  Carrie  Albin,  $1 ; 
Wm,  Mottis,  $1;  Earl  Hyde,  50  cents;  George  Hyde,  $1.50;  Elizabeth 
Hyde,  $1  ;  Hattie  Peters,  $1  ;  Alice  Buxton,  $1 ;  Jane  Greathouse,  $1 ; 
Amanda  Hyde,  50  cents ;  Gertrude  Peters,  50  cents ;  Ina  Tavlor,  50  cents ; 
Mary  Taylor,  50  cents ;  Lizzie  Taylor,  25  cents ;  Fannie  Peters,  50 
cents ;  Ida  Pollman,  50  cents ;  Maria  Peters,  $1 ;  Lucy  Taylor,  50  cents ; 
from  I^ocal  Sunday  Schools  to  General  Sunday-School  Fund,  $4.50 ; 
Collection,  $2.90 ;  Bell  Ulrich,  50  cents ;  Mrs.  O.  C.  Rose.  $1  ;  Ed.  Smith 


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and  wife,  $1 ;  M.  T.  Walden,  $1;  Ruben  Woods,  25  cents;  George 
Markman,  5  cents ;  Eli  Weisner,  25  cents ;  S.  J.  Albin,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Garther, 
25  cents ;  Susan  Cole,  25  cents ;  Hays  Chamberlin.  $1 ;  Harley  Atkins, 
$1 ;  Glen  Boley,  $1 ;  John  G'ladfelter,  $1 ;  Chas.  Keiser,  $1 ;  Chas. 
Eagleson,  50  cents :  Collection,  .$1.20 ;  Evert  Rose,  $7 ;  Alva  Harrison, 
$5;  Chas.  Varnasdall,  $2;  Martha  Vanarsdall,  $1;  Lizzia  Rothrock,  $1 ; 
Samuel  Snively,  $1  ;  N.  F.  Lyons,  $1 ;  Lizzie  Arnold,  $1 ;  Herbert 
Madden,  $1  ;  Mira  Rose,  $2.50;  Lucy  Fields,  50  cents;  Mrs.  S.  Sniveley, 
50  cents;  Mrs.  Brown,  50  cents;  Mrs.  Rash,  50  cents;  Mrs.  R.  Harrison, 
50  cents;  Noia  Swinson,  $1;  Hugh  Swinson,  $1  ;  Mrs.  David  Dodds,  $1  ; 
Edith  Smith,  50  cents;  Emma  Rose,  $2;  A.  E.  .Tenner,  25  cents;  John 
Bryant,  25  cents ;  Lesie  Patterson,  25  cents ;  Lewis  Combs,  $2 ;  Zina 
Rose,  50  cents;  Chas.  Mullinat,  25  cents;  W.  T.  Mather,  25  cents;  C.  M. 
Madden,  $1;  Fred  Peters,  Sr.,  $1;  Henry  Peters,  $2;  Grant  Huffman, 
$2;  Wm.  Ulm,  $3;  James  Bunting,  $1;  Arch  Taylor,  50  cents;  Foreign 
Missions,  $27.24;  Home  Missions,  $20.  Grand  total,  $152.24. 


SUMNER  CIRCUIT— L.  E.  Miller,  Pastor. 

Sumner  Class. — E.  M.  Piper,  Mrs.  E.  Willey,  each,  $5 ;  S.  A.  Houchen 
and  wife,  $4 ;  J.  W.  Vangilder  and  wife,  -H.  M.  Pepple,  each,  $3 ;  H.  O. 
Stout,  Wilson  Prout,  W.  M.  Travis,  David  Combs,  each,  $2 ;  Alice  Piper, 
Nola  Pierce,  Hugh  Sivert,  Myrtle  Piper,  Clem  Heath,  Nellie  Piper,  Emma 
Wright,  Fred  Harper,  Ella  Newman,  L.  E.  Miller,  Lee  Sumner,  Bud 
Piper,  W.  C.  Jones,  F.  M.  Stout,  Lillian  Stoner,  each,  $1  ;  Iva  Stoner, 
R.  A.  Sivert,  each,  50  cents;  Sherman  Jones,  Gertrude  Cunningham, 
Susan  Weber,  L.  J.  Bowman,  each,  25  cents;  Sarah  Eason,  20  cents; 
Edith  Pierce,  10  cents;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  U.,  $29;  Juniors,  $29.80;  Sunday 
School,  $15.27;  Public  Collection,  $3.25;  Stella  Sloan,  50  cents.  Total, 
$123.12. 

Pleasant  Hill  Class. — C.  W.  Westali,  $6;  D.  P.  Stoltz,  I.  K.  Vanatta, 
Sarah  McNeece,  each,  $5 ;  Oris  Peeple,  Mabel  McNeece,  each,  $3 ;  Geo. 
McNeece,  Wm.  Vangilder.  each,  $2;  Mollie  Petty,  Grace  Stoltz,  C.  L. 
Critchfield,  Lee  Brookhart,  Ellis  Stoltz,  W.  A.  Hutchison,  Cora  McNeece, 
K.  P.  Petty,  Dasie  Piper,  each,  $1 ;  Ida  Stine,  M.  C.  Vangilder,  C. 
Hutchison,  Jessie  Petty,  each,  50  cents;  Will  Upchurch,  15  cents;  Mary 
Potts,  10  cents  ;  Thanksgiving  Offering,  $19.05  ;  Sunday  School,  $12.13  : 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  U.,  $7.50.  Total,  $80.93. 

Union  Chapel  Class. — J.  R.  King,  $5;  A.  L.  Caudle,  $1.50;  Eva 
Jenners,  Ed.  Fyffe,  J.  B.  Klingler,  O’.  E.  Harper,  Wm.  Pepple.  Emma 
Stoltz,  E.  Ashbaugh,  each,  $1;  Nora  McCally,  $2;  Mollie  Caudle, 
Emmerson  Caudle,  Mrs.  H.  L.  Morris,  Bessie  Brookhart,  each,  50  cents  ; 
Louise  Fyffe,  Efhe  Sebright,  Elijah  Bowers,  Mary  Harper,  Lillie  Caudle, 
Stella  Klingler,  Della  Moore,  each,  25  cents;  Florence  Klingler,  20 
cents;  Sunday  School,  $7.17;  Public  Collection,  $5.11;  Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  I  ., 
$17 ;  Maud  Lidey,  25  cents.  Total,  $48.98. 

Prairie  Chapel  Class. — O.  W.  Wagner,  $5;  Pearl  Stine,  Wm.  McCane. 
each,  $2;  C.  E.  Hutchison,  J.  C.  Case,  .T.  F.  Stine,  E.  S.  Petty,  P.  O. 
Petty,  each,  $1 ;  .Toana  Alsey,  Mollie  Petty,  Geo.  Petty,  Ollie  Gray,  Emma 
Petty,  each,  50  cents ;  Nellie  Porter,  Verena  Petty,  Anna  Petty,  Rose 
Petty,  Otis  Petty,  Harley  Petty,  John  Lathrop,  each,  25  cents;  Friend. 
45  cents.  Total,  $18.70. 

Centenary  Class. — Libby  Berry,  50  cents ;  Geo.  Fiscus,  Rachel  Fiscus. 
Sarah  Herrin,  each,  25  cents;  Public  Collection,  50  cents.  Total,  $1.75. 
Grand  total,  $273.48. 

Church  Extension,  $124:  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  $02.50;  Balance 
on  Conference  Benevolences. 


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ST.  FRANCIS VILLE  CHARGE— E.  M.  Pierson,  Pastor. 

St.  Francisville  Class. — Lessie  Mofers,  $10;  P.  M.  England,  $5;  N.  P. 
Pepple,  $5 ;  J.  Litherland,  $5 ;  C.  L.  Stephenson,  $5 ;  Mrs.  S.  O. 
Stoltz,  $5;  C.  .C.  Ackman,  $5;  Sunday  School,  $5;  E.  H.  McElfresh. 
$3;  Mrs.  J.  M.  England.  $2;  Fern  Stoltz,  $2;  H.  R.  Warded,  $2: 
Mary  Pepple,  $1 ;  Ratha  Ryan,  $1 ;  J.  D.  Pech,  $1 ;  Myrtle  Pierson,  $1  : 
Weaver  Pierson,  $1 ;  Mrs.  Nappier,  $1 ;  Sarah  Greyson,  $1 ;  Junior 
Society,  $1 ;  George  Houts,  $3 ;  Nancy  Houts,  50  cents ;  Mary  Peck,  50 
cents ;  Isabelle  Peck,  25  cents  ;  Inis  Huey,  25  cents ;  Ruth  England,  25 
cents  ;  Forest  England,  25  cents  ;  Martha  Conrad,  25  cents ;  Temperance 
Addie,  25  cents ;  General  Collections,  $179.41  ;  W.  M.  A.  Society,  $84.85. 
Total,  $331.76. 

Sand  Barrens  Class. — E.  M.  Pierson,  $15;  Chas.  Hovermale,  $10: 
J.  B.  Jett,  $10;  Frank  Hovermale,  $10;  Rilla  Hovermale,  $10;  John 
Hob,  $5;  Edgar  Sibert,  $5;  Perry  Vanwey,  $5;  Guy  Jones,  $5;  Bert 
Litherland,  $2;  John  Lockman,  $2;  Wm.  Bye,  $2;  Daniel  Haycoch,  $2: 
Eli  Litherland,  $2 ;  Mark  Schroyer,  $2 ;  A.  H.  Shafer,  $2 ;  Mrs.  J.  B. 
Jett,  $1 ;  Daniel  Phelps,  $1 ;  Jess  Litherland,  $1 ;  Victor  Litherland. 
$1 ;  Robert  Iloh,  $1 ;  Lewis  Hovermale,  $1  :  Mary  Haycoch,  $1  ;  Clara 
Hovermale,  $1  ;  Bessie  Tarpley,  $1 :  Cora  Hankins,  $1  ;  Mary  Hoh,  $1 : 
Emma  Sibert,  $1 :  Jennie  Sibert,  $1  ;  Jess  Ghere,  $1 ;  James  Vanwey, 
$1 ;  Allen  Sibert,  $1 ;  P.  L.  Jett,  $1 ;  Pool  Hankins,  $1 ;  Reathe  Ramsey, 
50  cents ;  Ellen  Hoh,  50  cents ;  Irene  Jett,  50  cents ;  Ethel  Haycoch. 
50  cents ;  Bertha  Hankins,  50  cents ;  Tressa  Hankins,  50  cents ;  Ethel 
Tarpley,  50  cents;  Edith  Tarpley,  50  cents;  Carrie  Vanwey,  50  cents: 
James  Tarpley,  50  cents;  Gusta  Boldt,  50  cents;  Wm.  Haycock,  50 
cents;  Lyda  Schroyer,  50  cents;  Hannah  Shafer,  50  cents;  Intermediate 
Sunday  School  Class,  $1.89 ;  Sunday  School,  $23.58 ;  General  Collections. 
$99.31.  Total,  $238.78. 

Ackman  Chapel  Class. — Arthur  Akin,  $10;  Harry  Payne,  $10;  Emma 
Richie,  $10 ;  Mary  Payne,  $5  ;  Paris  Steward,  $5 ;  Hardin  Ackman,  $5  : 
Harry  Rice,  $5 ;  Warren  Ackman,  $5  ;  Clara  Crutchfield,  $v> ;  Sella  Ack¬ 
man,  $2;  Lotta  Ryan,  $2;  Cyrus  Belcher,  $2;  Roll  Ackman,  $2;  Harvey 
Brunson,  $2 ;  Sarah  Akin,  $1 ;  L.  C.  Maples,  50  cents ;  Malissa  Maples. 
50  cents ;  Sallie  Auston,  25  cents ;  Alice  Ryan,  25  cents ;  Lizzie  Belcher. 
25  cents ;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  W.  Society,  $2 ;  W.  M.  A.  Society,  $3.15 ;  General 
Collection,  $50.26.  Total  $128.16. 

Grand  total  for  all  purposes,  $698.70. 

Home  Missions,  $203.36 ;  Foreign  Missions,  $147.85.  Total  for  Mis¬ 
sions,  $351.21.  Balance  on  Other  Claims. 


VERGENNES  CIRCUIT — R.  J.  Nash,  Pastor. 

Vergennes  Class. — J.  W.  Rosanbarger,  $2;  Magnolia  Quillraan,  $1.50  : 
J.  G.  Quillman,  $1  ;  Lucinda  Carlisle,  $1  ;  Wm.  Quigley,  $1 ;  Maggie 
Perry,  $1 ;  Will  Perry,  $1  ;  Henry  Johnson,  $1  ;  Lulu  Perkins,  $1 : 
Rev.  George  Perkins,  50  cents ;  Sarah  Carlisle,  50  cents ;  George  Perry. 
50  cents ;  Kate  Rosenbarger,  25  cents ;  Lulu  Rosenbarger,  25^  cents ; 
Gertrude  Miller,  25  cents ;  May  Reese,  25  cents ;  Glena  Perry,  15  cents : 
Bert  Cox,  10  cents;  Eunice  Jones,  10  cents;  Rosabelle  Quillman,  10 
cents;  Elvada  Quillman,  10  cents;  Lueria  McCoy,  10  cents;  Reba  Cox. 
10  cents  ;  Willie  Perry,  10  cents;  Ethel  Quigley,  10  cents;  Toadies’  Aid. 
$5 ;  Sunday  School,  $5 ;  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.,  $2 ;  Public  (Collection,  $6 : 
Children's  Day  Offering,  $5.71.  Total,  $37.66. 

Oak  G^ove  Class. — Jeff  IJeape,  $1;  Luther  Walters.  $1;  R.  .T.  Nash. 
$1 ;  J.  W.  Nash,  $1 ;  John  Flowers,  50  cents ;  Dora  Flowers,  50  cents : 
Roy  Holiday,  50  cents ;  Ed.  Butler,  25  cents ;  Mattie  Butler,  2.)  cents  : 
George  Robert,  25  cents;  Ed.  Holidav,  25  cents;  Ruth  Doerr,  25  cents: 
Anna  Holiday,  10  cents;  John  Lidikay,  12  cents;  Rachel  Lidikay,  10 


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cents :  Will  Reese.  5  cents ;  Jeff  Casteel.  5  cents ;  J.  Russell,  5  cents ; 
Lizzie  Rees,  5  cents  ;  Robert  Butler,  5  cents ;  Baby  Butler,  5  cents ;  Anna 
Holiday,  1  cent ;  Lola  Holiday,  1  cent ;  Kern  Holiday,  1  cent ;  Page 
Holiday,  1  cent:  Robert  Holiday,  10  cents;  Dona  Holiday,  10  cents; 
Anna  Flowers.  10  cents ;  Abner  Walters,  50  cents ;  Susie  Walters,  25 
cents ;  Sunday  School,  $1.70 ;  Public  Offering,  $6.25 ;  Children’s  Day, 
$2.05.  Total,  $18.46. 

Mt.  Zion  Class. — -R.  J.  Nash.  Westfield  College,  $2 ;  Public  Collection, 
$2.10;  R.  .T.  and  .T.  W.  Nash,  $6.50;  Easter  Offering,  $3.  Total,  $13.60. 
Grand  total,  $69.22. 


WESTFIELD  DISTRICT 

AVENA  CIRCUIT— J.  L.  Pellum,  Pastor. 

Mt.  Cannel  Class. — Geo.  Carson,  $2;  C.  B.  Turner,  $1;  Clara  Turner, 
$1 ;  Jacob  Miller,  $1 ;  G.  W.  Grandfielcl,  $1 ;  Geo.  Schaub,  $1 ;  Vine 
Carson,  $1  ;  Carrie  Markley,  $1 ;  Retta  Mikesell,  $1 ;  Lucinda  Stevens, 
81 ;  Joseph  Stevens,  75  cents ;  Mary  Miller,  75  cents ;  Oscar  Grandfield, 
50  cents ;  John  Miller,  50  cents ;  Lora  Miller,  50  cents ;  Stella  Carson, 
50  cents;  Almo  Carson,  50  cents;  John  Markley,  50  cents;  Bessie  Dil- 
man.  25  cents ;  Lena  Nichols,  25  cents ;  Esma  Nichols,  25  cents ;  Chester 
Nichols,  25  cents ;  Electa  Cheney,  25  cents ;  N.  D.  Cheney,  25  cents ; 

Perry  Davis,  25  cents  :  Carrie  Davis,  25  cents ;  Olive  Stevens,  25  cents ; 

Oscar  Miller,  25  cents ;  Lydia  Sefton,  10  cents  ;  Daisy  Sefton,  10  cents  ; 

Alvin  Davis,  10  cents ;  Joe  Dively,  5  cents ;  Elvy  Lawson,  3  cents ; 

Public  Offerings,  $11.83.  Total,  $15.31. 

Locust  Grove  Class. — II.  Devore,  $1  ;  James  Carter,  $1 ;  Geo.  Watson, 
$1 ;  Herman  Fuqua,  50  cents ;  C.  IJ.  Hickenbottom,  50  cents  ;  Geo.  Hale, 
50  cents ;  J.  W.  Hicks,  50  cents ;  Andrew  Watson,  50  cents ;  Lulu 
Ireland,  25  cents ;  Sylva  Hale,  25  cents ;  Neoma  Tucker,  25  cents ;  Mable 
Fuqua,  25  cents;  Winnie  Hale,  25  cents;  Public  Offerings,  $3.58. 
Total,  $10.33. 

A  vena  Class. — Lizzie  McIntyre,  $1 :  Cora  Kepner,  $1 ;  Oscar  Kepner, 
$1 ;  Jacob  Kepner,  $1  ;  Ella  Heldenbrand,  50  cents ;  Lafe  McConkev, 
50  cents;  Pearl  Cole,  25  cents;  Public  Offerings,  $2.21.  Total,  $7.46. 

BEECHER  CITY  CIRCUIT— T.  IJ.  Decker,  Pastor. 

Beecher  City  Class. — David  Sweazv.  Mary  Sweazy,  each,  $3 ;  Sallie 
Richards,  Harriett  Sweazy,  George  Clough,  each,  $2 ;  Clyde  Sweazy, 
S.  B.  Warner,  Walter  Long,  each,  $1 ;  Elizabeth  Thompson,  Anna  Engle, 
Nannie  Robbins,  Alice  Warner,  Scott  Conner,  Maud  Sweazy,  A.  Harris, 
each,  50  cents;  Abigail  Algood,  10  cents;  Public  Collection,  $2.11. 
Total,  $21.71. 

Fancher  Class. — W.  B.  Lantz  and  wife,  each,  $3.50 ;  Chas.  Bird,  $3  ; 
Lela  Hulton,  Laura  'Nanderpool,  T.  H.  Decker,  Marion  Castwens,  each, 
$2 ;  Gertie  Summers,  Sherman  Goff,  Mrs.  Daniels,  Ruth  Helton,  Chris 
Greiner,  William  Marsh,  Mrs.  Hilly,  each,  $1 ;  Hazel  Daniels,  B.  Sum¬ 
mers,  Carl  Vanderpool,  Lizzie  Bird,  each,  50  cents ;  Mrs.  Beck,  25  cents. 
Public  Collection,  $4.  Total,  $30.75. 

Holland  Class. — Will  Hubbart,  $3 ;  Sadie  Lowe,  $1.50 ;  Eligah  Ilub- 
bart,  Mrs.  Dial  Cyrus  Conell,  Nettie  Stone,  Clarence  Ponsler,  John  Miller, 
each,  $1 ;  Laura  Hubbart,  Prudence  Ponsler,  Mary  Smith,  Mrs.  Busie, 
Geo.  Hubbart,  Cyrus  Giles,  each.  50  cents;  Public  Collection,  $4.  Total, 
$16.50. 

Grand  total,  $68.96. 


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CLARKSBURG  CIRCUIT— W.  O.  Albert. 

Rockford  Class  and  Friends,  $5.08.  Total,  $5.98. 

Pleasant  Hill  Class  and  Friends,  $16.73 ;  Sunday  School,  $1.  Total 
$17.73. 

Mt.  Zion  Class  and  Friends,  $16.30;  Sunday  School,  $3.10.  Total, 
$19.40. 

Clarksburg  Class  and  Friends,  $14.69 ;  Sunday  School,  $10.20 ;  L.  A. 
S..  $4.  Total,  $28.89. 

Grand  total,  $72.  To  be  applied — Home  Missions,  $10;  Foreign 
Missions,  $6.70 ;  Balance  on  Conference  Assessments. 

CASEY  CIRCUIT — C.  IV.  Perkins,  Pastor. 

Contributions:  Weekly  Offerings,  $25.04;  Personal  Contributions,  $103. 
Total,  $128.04. 

Disbursements:  Presiding  Elder's  Salary,  $70;  Foreign  Missions, 
$8.04 ;  Conference  Church  Extension,  $22.62 ;  Church  Erection,  $2.88 ; 
Bishop’s  Salary,  $12.50 ;  Preachers’  Aid,  $8 ;  Annual  Conference  Ex¬ 
pense,  $4.  Total,  $128.04. 

CASEY  STATION— W.  L.  Perkins,  Pastor. 

Cordelia  Bell,  50  cents ;  W.  L.  Perkins  and  wife,  $14 ;  Perna  Stoltz, 
$18 ;  Pearl  Troughton,  80  cents  ;  Y.  Middleton,  $2  ;  Orelda  Neeley,  $5.20 ; 
J.  Congil,  $5 ;  Stella  Adams,  75  cents ;  Mrs.  G.  B.  Nay,  $5.20 ;  Ethel 
and  Harvey  Houser,  $5.10 ;  O.  E.  Fauclier,  $7.80  ;  W.  J.  David,  $7.80 ; 

C.  C.  Fauclier,  $2 ;  Sue  Gossett,  Henry  David  and  wife,  $18 ;  Henry 
Carrol,  25  cents ;  W.  C.  Gossett,  $2 ;  Jennie  Howe,  $3 ;  Arthur  Davis, 
$5 ;  Mattie  Turner,  $5 ;  M.  Killion,  $1 ;  M.  Gossett,  $1 ;  Allie  Trifflehorn, 
$1 ;  Mellie  McGinnis,  $1 ;  Claude  Vickrey,  $5 ;  Ben  Miller,  $5 ;  B. 
Huddleston,  $5 ;  R.  Shore,  $5  ;  J.  N.  Houser,  $5 ;  L.  F.  Strockbine  and 
wife,  $5 ;  D.  R.  Fauclier,  $5 ;  Mollie  Steers,  $2 ;  Cecil  McClellen,  $2 ; 
L.  F.  Miller,  $1 ;  Mrs.  J.  J.  Neeley,  $2.50 ;  Ellen  Kerr,  $1 ;  Jesse  Ford, 
50  cents;  Sarah  Lee,  25  cents;  Mrs.  E.  J.  McCoy,  $1;  Fannie  Miller, 
$1;  Mary  Philips,  50  cents;  Nora  David.  $10;  Mrs.  G.  ID  Keer,  50  cents; 

D.  B.  Miller,  $5;  Mrs.  W.  W.  McDonald,  $5;  S.  Crampton,  $1.56;  J.  L. 
Main.  $3 ;  Chas.  Lippencott,  $3 ;  a  friend,  $3 ;  T.  Gore,  $1 ;  Walter 
Perkins,  $1 ;  W.  O.  Slusser,  50  cents ;  G.  H.  Keer,  50  cents ;  Zella 
IJigbee,  25  cents ;  M.  Girard,  $2. 

Applied  on  Chart  Assessments,  $148.50;  Balance  on  Missions  and 
Church  Extensions. 

GREENUP  CIRCUIT— J.  E.  Spencer,  Pastor. 

Williams  Chapel. — Aarnos  Groves,  Ester  Oaks,  each,  $1  ;  Florence 
Oaks,  Mary  J.  Billman.  Mrs.  Groves,  each,  25  cents;  Sister  Marrow, 
10  cents ;  Collection,  75  cents. 

Allens  Chapel,  50  cents. 

Liberty  Hill. — Ellen  Snearly,  Myrtle  Sperry,  each.  25  cents ;  George 
Hawk.  15  cents  ;  Collection.  50  cents. 

Union  Chapel. — John  Tomen,  $2;  San  Tomen,  $2;  G.  W.  Tucker,  50 
cents.  Total,  $9.95. 

ISLAND  GROVE  CIRCUIT— Arthur  Beldon,  Pastor. 

Kerns  Class. — Wm.  Dart,  Elsie  Trimble,  Liberty  Ivoontz,  Mi's.  Liberty 


50  cents  ;  Public  Collection,  $5.50. 

Bethel  Class. — Wm.  Candill,  Hamlin  McCoy,  Chas.  Smith,  E.  H. 
Brackney,  Gibson  Burk,  Lathon  Jahanson,  Sherman  Stockwell,  Oscar 


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Chronic,  each.  $1  ;  Claud  Bower,  Wm.  Burk,  Howard  McCay,  James 
Varvil,  Mrs.  Merit,  Anniel  Ilelderbrand,  Arthur  Belden,  each,  50  cents; 
Alva  Bower,  Zona  Smith,  Wm.  Buhler,  Mrs.  Gibson  Burk,  Alen  Brant, 
Myrtle  Bower,  Lyda  French,  Rachel  Brackney,  Mr.  Thompson,  Andy 
Burk,  each,  25  cents;  Public  Collection,  60  cents. 

Mt.  Zion  Class. — Luella  Riley,  Ethel  Boxley,  Wm.  Clark,  Al.  Clark, 
E.  F.  McCarty,  Owen  Clark,  each,  $1 ;  Anthony  Guarettaz,  $2 ;  Mrs. 
Al.  Clark,  G.  A.  Belden,  Nellie  Boxley.  Mrs.  Wm.  Boxley,  each,  50  cents ; 
Mrs.  Poe,  Fuller  Hill,  Howard  McCoy,  Willie  Burk,  each,  25  cents; 
Special,  .$2  Public  Collection. 

Woodbury  Class. — E.  E.  Gaskill,  $1  ;  Cecil  Gaskill.  Maud  Dow,  Mrs. 
Plummer,  Kate  Dow,  Arthur  Belden,  each,  50  cents;  Mrs.  Bishop,  Emma 
Brewer,  Dulsie  Brewer,  Mrs.  Brewer,  Ilallie  Decker,  Ellen  Bolin,  .Tames 
Lake,  each,  25  cents ;  Special,  $2. 

Jewett  Class. — Abbie  Jones,  $1  ;  Mrs.  Allenbaugh,  Stell  Jay,  Arthur 
Belden,  each,  55  cents;  Special  Public  Collection,  .$3.60. 


LOOGOOTEE  CIRCUIT— C.  O.  Myers,  Pastor. 

Salem  Class. — Rev.  A.  W.  Lowry,  $8;  Silas  Greider,  $5;  Mary  A. 
Lowry,  $5 ;  Christena  Lowry,  $2 ;  A.  E.  Lowry,  $2 ;  Nan  Lowry,  $1 ; 

L.  G.  Lippincott.  $1.50;  Amistetta  Wagner,  $1;  Mrs.  Silas  Greider,  $1 ; 

M.  H.  Lowry,  $1 ;  R.  W.  Mahon,  $1 ;  Rev.  C.  O.  Myers,  $1 ;  Marzilla 
Myers,  50  cents;  Evelyn  Fay  Myers,  25  cents;  Sophrona  Greider,  50 
cents ;  Frederica  Smith,  25  cents ;  Blanch  Greider,  25  cents ;  Oma  Greider, 
10  cents;  Earl  Greider,  25  cents;  Ray  Lowry,  25  cents;  Fred  Rexwinkle, 
50  cents:  Caroline  Lippincott,  50  cents;  Sam  Wagner,  50  cents;  M.  E. 
Lowry,  50  cents;  Mabel  Lowry,  10  cents;  Alice  Lowry,  50  cents;  D.  A. 
Lowry,  25  cents;  Genila  Lowry,  25  cents;  Mary  Mattix,  25  cents; 
George  Mattix,  15  cents:  Gladys  Mattix,  10  cents;  Chas.  McCormack, 
25  cents;  Wesley  Ragel.  50  cents:  Ruby  Ragel,  10  cents;  Blanch  Royal, 
5  cents;  Regular  and  Special  Collections,  $13.41;  Y.  P.  C.  E.,  Special, 
$4.64 ;  Special  Collection,  $3.  Total,  $57.40. 

Pleasant  Grove  Class. — Rev.  J.  R.  Fogler,  $5;  Mrs.  .T.  R.  Fogler,  $2.50: 
W.  II.  Gray,  $2 ;  J.  H.  Mahon,  $2 ;  Samuel  Eberheart,  $1 ;  Lewis  Lape, 
$1 ;  Henry  Pilcher.  $1 ;  Sarah  Pruett,  $1 ;  Mary  Mahon,  $1 ;  Amanda 
Gray,  $1 ;  Margaret  Henry,  $1 ;  George  Horner,  $1 ;  Bertha  Gray,  25 
cents ;  Lincoln  Gray,  25  cents :  Bonnie  Gray,  25  cents ;  C.  F.  Mahon, 
75  cents;  Lela  Mahon,  75  cents;  Ralph  Mahon,  10  cents;  Earl  Mahon. 
10  cents;  Harold  Mahon.  10  cents;  Frank  Mahon,  10  cents ;  Carroll 
Mahon,  10  cents ;  Nancy  Eberhart.  50  cents ;  Jennie  Mahon,  25  cents ; 
Mary  Peters,  50  cents  ;  William  Guffey,  50  cents ;  R.  C.  Mahon,  25  cents ; 
Ella  Horner,  25  cents  ;  Lucy  Horner,  25  cents ;  Forest  Lape,  25  cents ; 
Mary  Lape,  25  cents  ;  Luther  Albright,  25  cents  ;  Ada  Albright,  25  cents  ; 
Edna  Albright,  10  cents;  Lucy  Albright,  10  cents;  Harry  Helms,  25 
cents;  Clarence  Helms,  10  cents;  Lilly  Ervin,  50  cents;  Mrs.  R.  E. 
Stephens,  25  cents  ;  Emily  Lambert,  25  cents;  Fred  Miller,  50  cents; 
Special  Collection.  $2.85;  Regular  Collection,  $14.10;  Home  Mission 
Special,  $3.05;  Children’s  Day  Offering,  $1;  Special  Collection,  $3. 
Total,  $51.80. 

Prairie  Chapel  Class. — A.  T.  Parks,  50  cents  ;  Sarah  Parks,  50  cents  ; 
Bert  Parks,  25  cents:  Ella  Scolds,  25  cents;  Willie  Parks,  10  cents; 
Collection,  86  cents;  Euphama  McGraw,  25  cents.  Total,  $2.71. 
Grand  total,  $111.91. 

Paid  to  Missions,  $90.27 ;  Balance  on  Other  Conference  Claims. 


MARSHALL  STATION— Root.  Griffin,  Pastor. 

Joseph  Stewart,  Sarah  Rudy,  Lula  Griffin,  Robert  Griffin,  each,  $5 ; 
Emma  Fredenberger,  $3.50;  Sarah  Fredenberger,  $2.25;  Michael  Hon- 


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drich,  $1.50;  Frank  Chickadony,  $1.50;  Eliza  Johnson,  $1.50;  Marie 
Hondrich,  Theodocia  Chickadony,  each,  $1.25 ;  Henry  Deitzel,  Sadie 
Stewart,  Harriett  Metz,  O.  A.  Dickens,  Win.  Hamerly,”  Rebecca  Slusser, 
Virgil  Griffin,  Edith  Griffin,  each,  $1 ;  Missionary  Committee,  90  cents ; 
Ruth  Chickadony,  75  cents ;  Carrie  Findley,  Jacob  Metz,  .T.  A.  Beltz, 
Asenath  Whitcomb,  each,  50  cents ;  Wm.  Purcell,  Lizzie  Cliff.  Will 
German,  Nettie  Fredenberger,  Walter  Flenner,  each,  25  cents;  Juniors 
for  Foreign  Missions — Esther  Riley,  $1.32;  Edith  Griffin,  $1.14;  Ethel 
Thompson,  50  cents ;  Virgil  Griffin,  31  cents ;  Allie  Poffinbarger,  17  cents  ; 
Fred  Gipson,  5  cents;  Cordelia  Gipson,  1  cent;  Bernard  Mav,  25  cents. 
Total,  $48.90. 

W.  M.  A.,  $25.25  ;  Etta  Wood,  Special  for  Foreign  Missions,  $5  ;  West- 
field  College  by  Pres.  Daugherty.  $148.50.  Grand  total,  $227.65. 


MARTINSVILLE  CIRCUIT— H.  S.  Reese,  Pastor. 

Centenary  Class. — Lina  Bierbaum,  $5  ;  Abie  Hondrich,  $8 ;  Ed.  Freed- 
enberger,  $6;  Geo.  Bierbaum,  $3;  Barrit  Burkett,  $2;  Wm.  Washburn. 
Jr.,  $2 ;  Wm.  Washburn,  Sr.,  $2.50 ;  Henry  Bierbaum,  $2 ;  Joe  Glovier, 
$2 ;  Amanda  Hondrich,  $2 ;  Bell  McCarty,  Dick  McCarty,  Ruth  Wash¬ 
burn,  Eva  Hondrich,  Lizzie  Echle,  Frank  Austin,  Bula  Inlow,  Lizzie 
Freedenberger,  each,  $1.  Total,  $42.60. 

Friendship  Class. — Alisa 'McDaniel,  $2.25:  G.  W.  Harrod,  $2;  Rosa 
Harrod,  $3  ;  Frank  McCrory,  $1 ;  Stella  McCrory,  $1 ;  Frank  Huffman. 
$1 ;  Mrs.  S.  Huffman,  $1 ;  Frank  Piersall,  50  cents ;  Nancy  Cooper,  50 
cents ;  Guy  Cooper,  50  cents  ;  Ruby  Lemx,  50  cents ;  Father  Lemx,  50 
cents;  Sam  Huffman,  25  cents.  Total,  $14. 

$20  Applied  on  Church  Extension  Fund,  $4  on  Presiding  Elder's 
Salary,  Remainder  to  Be  Applied  on  Various  Interests  of  the  Church. 

Doson  Class. — W.  C.  Jeffers,  $5;  Ralph  Jeffers,  $4;  H.  Hopkins,  $4; 
Mrs.  S.  Gallatin,  $4;  Cassie  Jeffers,  $3;  Jasper  Wlery,  $3;  Cora  Sin- 
clar,  $3;  Nora  Warters,  $1.50;  Fannie  Gallatine,  $2;  Wm.  Walker,  $2; 
Emanuel  Wlery,  $1 ;  Linna  .Tones,  $1 ;  Mrs.  V.  Gallatin,  $1 ;  Sarah 
Black,  50  cents ;  Frank  Sharp,  50  cents.  Total,  $34. 


PARIS  STATION— Rev.  J.  C.  Fowler,  Pastor. 

Rev.  J.  C.  Fowler  and  wife,  $25 ;  H.  T.  Brubaker  and  wife,  $25 ;  Wm. 
McComas  and  wife,  $10;  J.  W.  Purcell  and  wife,  $10;  Sunday  School. 
$12  ;  J.  R.  Whitsel  and  wife,  $5 ;  William  Boyer,  $5 ;  Philinda  J^owler, 
$5;  John  Bomgardner  and  wife,  $5;  Ray  Noovvan  and  wife,  $5;  Rev. 
James  Tunnicliff,  $3;  Joseph  Cardinal,  $3;  John  Boyer  and  wife,  $3; 
Leslie  Whitsell  and  wife,  $2;  Bulah  Inlow,  $2 ;  P.  F.  Inlow  and  wife, 
$2 ;  William  Jones  and  wife,  $2 ;  Nancy  Stotts,  $1  ;  Grace  Muncie,  $1  ; 
Kate  Bush,  $1 ;  Willie  Cole,  $1 ;  Maggie  Trott,  $1 ;  J.  A.  Patterson,  $1  ; 
Sarah  Sims,  $1 ;  Albert  Black,  $1 ;  Euris  V.  Fowler  and  wife,  $1  ; 
Bessie  Ivlingler,  $1;  Allen  Brubaker,  $1;  Malinda  Troup,  $1;  Junior 
Society,  45  cents ;  Carrie  Showalter,  50  cents.  Total  for  Missions, 
$136.95.  Sunday-School  Special,  $48.17 ;  W.  M.  A.,  $42.18. 

Grand  total  for  Missions,  $246.28.  Applied  on  Conference  Assess¬ 
ments,  $87  ;  Balance  on  Other  Interests. 


TOLEDO  CIRCUIT— F.  II.  King,  Pastor. 

Toledo  Class. — Martin  Shupe,  $5.25 ;  Isaac  Sparks,  $5.25  ;  F.  H.  King 
and  wife,  $3 ;  Gladys  and  Leon  King,  each,  $1 ;  Lena  Greeson,  $2.50 : 
S.  O.  Stevenson  and  wife,  $2.50;  Walter  Brewer  and  wife,  $3.75;  Rev 
H.  M.  Tipsword,  $2.50 ;  Mary  Curtner,  $1 ;  Joseph  Dow  and  wife,  $2 
Jesse  Hillard  and  wife,  $1.50;  Effie  Hall,  50  cents;  Easter  Offering 
$2.04;  Mary  Botten,  $1;  .T.  H.  Williams,  $2;  Nancy  Greeson,  $2 
Mollie  Sherman.  $1.25;  James  Shupe  and  wife,  $1;  Lucy  F.  Deppeti, 


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$1 ;  Mary  Brewer,  $1 ;  H.  A.  Cowan,  $1 ;  Inez  Hillard,  50  cents  ;  Sallie 
R.  Estes.  25  cents ;  Eva  Seeley,  50  cents ;  Wm.  Shull  and  wife,  $1  ; 

D.  K.  Beals,  25  cents ;  Mollie  Grissom,  75  cents ;  Martha  White,  3  cents  : 
Mollie  Peters,  50  cents :  Ella  Curtner,  25  cents  ;  Catherine  Dow,  50  cents  ; 
Myrtle  Batten,  25  cents.  Total  for  Class,  $48.37. 

Connett  Class. — .T.  W.  Stitt  and  wife,  H.  Holsapple  and  wife,  Mary 
Hines,  each,  $5 ;  J.  W.  Holsapple  and  wife,  $2.50 ;  Mrs.  Chesser,  $2 ; 

E.  A.  Norveil  and  wife,  $1.50 ;  Fred  Williams  and  wife,  50  cents ;  Elsie 
Young,  $1 ;  Ada  Jones,  50  cents ;  Lizzie  Stitt,  25  cents ;  Etta  Cloud, 
25  cents ;  Joseph  Cloud  and  wife,  75  cents.  Total  for  class,  $24.15. 

Olive  Class. — B.  R.  Sparks  and  wife,  $3.75 ;  R.  Richardson  and  wife, 
$2.50 ;  E.  D.  Gordon  and  wife,  $2 ;  E.  M.  Sparks,  $2 ;  Isaac  Croy  and 
wife,  $3 ;  Hiram  Harris  and  wife,  Wm.  Oakley  and  wife,  Thos.  Roberts, 
Catherine  Shape,  Mary  Freeman,  Mary  Bruster,  Minnie  Garrison,  Ross 
Oakley  and  wife,  each,  $1 ;  Mollie  Sparks,  $1.25 ;  Walter  Shape  and  wife, 
75  cents;  A.  C.  Carl,  Edna  and  Maurice  Gordon,  Earl  Sparks,  J.  R. 
Cowan  and  wife,  John  Oakley  and  wife,  Jane  Oakley,  Emma  Steward, 
each,  50  cents ;  Effie  and  Fern  Richardson,  Elmer  Croy  and  wife,  Maggie, 
each,  25  cents ;  Verna  Harris,  Bernice  Beaumont,  Ora  Shupe,  each,  10 
cents.  Total.  $28.95. 

Grand  total,  $101.47.  Make  Conference  full,  $73.50;  Westfield  Col¬ 
lege,  $10 ;  Church  Erection,  $2.04 ;  Home  Missions,  $7.96 ;  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sions  ,  $7.97. 


VERMILION  CIRCUIT— J.  H.  Easton,  Pastor. 

Vermilion  Class. — J.  A.  Hornburger,  $10;  Andy  Farnem,  $5;  L.  E. 
Ford,  $2.50 ;  Phene  Vansickle,  $4 ;  George  Casle,  $2.50 ;  Bertha  Horn- 
burger,  $2;  Iva  and  Ruth  Wilkins,  $2;  Andy  York,  $2.50;  Lizie  Sheets. 
$1 ;  Dallie  Sheets,  $2;  William  Stubs,  $1;  David  Mason,  $1;  Jeff  Dodd, 
$1.25;  Ola  Dustimer,  $1;  Nancy  Foster.  $2.50;  Maggie  Bosley,  50  cents; 
Carrie  Souders,  50  cents ;  Mary  Routley,  50  cents ;  Edd  White.  $1 ; 
Alice  Givens,  50  cents ;  Lyda.  Luella  and  Martha  Jordan,  each,  $1  : 
Edith  and  Harold  Thompson.  $1 ;  George  Givens,  50  cents ;  Jessie  and 
Mollie  Hollaway,  each,  $1 ;  Olliver  Ilollaway,  50  cents ;  William  Givens. 
$1 ;  Rena  Newcomb,  50  cents ;  Woman’s  Aid,  $1 ;  Sunday  School,  $2.70. 
Total,  $55.45. 

Grand  total,  $109.06.  , 

Prairie  Chapel. — M.  J.  Glick,  $7;  J.  H.  Eastin  and  wife,  $5;  Alma 
Richardson,  $2 ;  Tessie  Wade,  $1.50 ;  Lula  Glick,  $2.50 ;  J.  T.  Cussick 
and  wife,  $2.75 ;  Sam  Neldon,  $1.50 ;  Chery  .Tones,  50  cents ;  Mrs.  M.  E. 
Glick,  $1 ;  Melton  Tery,  $2 ;  Bruce  Ferguson,  $1.75 ;  Louis  Morris  and 
wife,  $3 ;  Josua  Whitsel,  $3 ;  Mrs.  Shelba  Morris,  $1  ;  Sunday  School, 
$14.11;  Children’s  Day  Offering,  $5.  Total,  $53.61. 


WESTFIELD  CIRCUIT— Z.  II.  Byakd,  Pastor. 

Fairview  Class. — Z.  II.  Byard,  J.  H.  Lipencot,  each,  $1 ;  I.  W.  Yana¬ 
way,  Mahal  a  Woodburn,  W.  .T.  Rienbolt,  each,  50  cents;  John  Richard¬ 
son,  Lincoln  Woodburn,  Sam  Sidwell,  Thos.  Burscn,  E.  Henderson, 
M.  A.  Richardson,  E.  T.  Sidwell,  S.  J.  Closson,  A.  J.  Dearick,  Dot  Yana¬ 
way,  II.  A.  Rienbolt,  Thos.  Richardson,  L.  C.  Yanaway,  N.  F.  Wood, 
Mamie  Frizzell,  Alva  Woodburn.  Rose  Strockbine,  Mamie  Rienbolt. 
O.  A.  Rienbolt,  Ruth  Yanaway,  each,  25  cents.  Total,  $8.50.  Home. 
$3.25 ;  Foreign,  $5.25. 

Weaver  Class. — .John  Jenkins,  $1  ;  Jas.  Hutton.  Elmer  Abernathy. 
W.  F.  Comer,  H.  T.  Logau,  Stant  Gossett,  Sarah  Jenkins,  each,  50  cents  ; 
Mrs.  J.  V.  McNorris,  20  cents  ;  Agnes  Able,  Eliza  Abernathy,  each,  25 
cents:  J.  V.  McMorris,  10  cents.  Total,  $4.80.  Home,  $2.40;  Foreign. 
$2.40. 


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Liberty  Class. — Ocbetta  Richardson,  $2;  John  Richardson,  Franklin 
Johns,  Nancy  Landrus,  Jane  Dallas,  each.  .$1 ;  J.  W.  Dallas,  R.  O. 
Bacon,  Thos.  Newel,  Fred  Melton,  Marion  Dallas,  W.  A.  Steward,  Geo. 


Salisbury  Class. — Sarah  E.  Beck,  Foreign,  $1. 

Grand  total  Home,  $11.15;  Foreign,  $19.24.  Total  for  Missions,  $30.39. 


WESTFIELD  STATION— II.  H.  Heberly,  Pastor. 

C.  E.  Bigelow  and  family,  $25 ;  S.  Mills  and  wife,  $15 ;  S.  Spellbury 
and  wife,  $15  ;  Mrs.  S.  R.  Connelly,  $20 ;  L.  H.  Cooley  and  wife,  $10 ; 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  W.  R.  Shney,  $10 ;  Dr.  H.  A'.  Anderson,  $10 ;  Mrs.  H.  V. 
Anderson,  $10 ;  B  F.  Daugherty  and  family,  $10 ;  Mrs.  Lizzie  Laws, 
$10;  II.  H.  Heberly  and  wife,  $8;  R.  M.  Porterfield  and  wife,  $10;  E.  R. 
Shuey,  $10 ;  Lela  Seneff,  $5 ;  Airs.  Sarah  Smith,  $5 ;  D.  R.  Seneff  and 
wife,  $6 ;  Prof.  W.  E.  Schear,  $5  ;  A.  H.  Ganer,  $5 ;  H.  P.  Milts,  $5 ;  L.  A. 
Rider  and  wife,  $5 ;  Florence  Wilson,  $2.50 ;  M.  M.  Ilooner.  $3.50 : 
Lois  Shney,  $1:  W.  A.  Bandy  and  wife,  $1;  Mrs.  M.  J.  White,  $1.50; 
Mrs.  L.  A.  Swickard,  $1  ;  C.  C.  Rider  and  wife,  $1  ;  E.  Spellbring,  $1 ; 
Airs.  Wilson,  $1 ;  Emmar  Wilson.  $1  ;  W.  H.  Armentrout,  $1 ;  All's.  J.  R. 
Shuey,  $1.50 ;  Airs.  R.  G.  Newell.  $1  ;  Helen  Biggs,  25  cents ;  Airs. 
Evinger,  50  cents ;  Airs.  Hancock,  50  cents ;  Sylva  Rule,  50  cents ;  Airs. 
W.  Parcel,  50  cents.  Total  of  Voluntary  Offering,  $219.25. 

Special  Foreign  Alissions,  $72.25 ;  Special  Home  Alissions.  $80.85 ; 
Woman’s  Alissionary  Society,  $111.32 ;  Conference  Church  Extension, 
$08  ;  Benevolences,  $44.  Total,  $404.42. 

Grand  total.  $083.07  ;  less  $82,  leaves  $001.07. 


YALE  CIRCUIT— T.  D.  Spyker,  Pastor. 

Yale  Class. — T.  D.  Spyker  and  wife,  $10 ;  W.  A.  Gifford  and  wife,  $5  ; 
A.  F.  Snearly,  $2;  Geo.  Ingle.  $1.15;  Frank  Finney,  $1;  Pd.  Perisho, 
$1 ;  J.  AI.  Coons,  $1 ;  B.  F.  Alonrony.  $1 ;  Eliza  Welker,  50  cents ;  Belle 
Welker,  50  cents ;  AI.  H.  Cramer,  50  cents ;  D.  Odell,  50  cents ;  J.  A. 
Nebergal,  25  cents;  Jno  Halcock.  25  cents;  Gertie  Haycock,  15  cents: 
Elizabeth  Odell,  25  cents ;  C.  AI.  Alelton,  25  cents ;  Frank  AIcCoy,  25 
cents ;  Bert  Curl,  25  cents ;  A.  C.  Lewis,  25  centsfii  Nellie  Welker.  15 
cents ;  Anna  Finney,  15  cents ;  Donald  Ault,  10  cents ;  Flora  Alorgan, 
10  cents;  Alaggie  Snearlv,  10  cents;  Russel  Alartin,  10  cents;  Collection, 
$4.77.  Total,  $31.27. 

Cummins  Class. — T.  J.  Kibler,  $5 ;  T.  H.  Lambert,  $3.75 ;  W.  A. 
AIcCoy,  $3;  C.  G.  Cook,  $2;  A.  Kibler,  $2;  J.  Frank  Alitchel,  $2;  Rebecca 
Shuey,  $2;  Julia  Kibler,  $1.50;  Lillie  Kibler,  $1;  Lillie  Alitchel,  $1 : 
Rena  Finnev,  $1 ;  Catharine  S.  Kibler,  $1 ;  Alollie  Lambert,  $1 ;  Alary 
E.  Hunt,  $1 ;  R.  S.  Hunt,  $1 ;  S.  G.  Kibler  .$1 ;  Otto  Stiffal,  $1 ;  Homer 
Cummins,  $1 ;  Clara  Kibler,  $1 ;  D.  E.  McNeece,  75  cents ;  H.  G.  Wil¬ 
liams,  50  cents;  Laura  AIcCoy.  50  cents;  Alary  Cummins,  50  cents: 
Alaggy  Stiffal,  50  cents:  Lydia  Kibler,  50  cents:  Opal  Kibler,  25  cents: 
Lucy  Cook,  25  cents;  Bertha  Holmes,  25  cents;  Fay  Cook.  25  cents: 
Yelvia  Lambert,  25  cents ;  Dorothy  Finny,  25  cents ;  Edna  Aladden,  25 
cents ;  Orlie  Kibler,  25  cents ;  Sarah  Cook,  25  cents ;  Carl  Kilborn,  25 
cents;  Hale  Kibler,  25  cents;  Virgil  Kibler,  25  cents;  Bettie  AVilliams, 
25  cents  ;  Lucy  Alitchel,  25  cents ;  Fae  Kibler,  25  cents ;  Ora  AIcNeece. 
25  cents ;  Christine  Kibler.  25  cents ;  Oids  Lambert,  25  cents ;  Lucile 
Kibler,  10  cents.  Total,  $40.10. 


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Otterbein  Class. — G.  E.  Snearly,  $5 ;  Win.  Layman,  $4 ;  S.  S.  Farley, 
$3 ;  Emery  Gifford,  $1 ;  Henry  Gifford,  $1 ;  J.  A.  Davis  and  wife,  .$1 ; 
II.  H.  Chapman,  $1 ;  Sumner  Cox  and  wife,  $1 ;  Bertha  Gifford,  50 
cents ;  Eva  Layman,  50  ecnts ;  Belle  Farley,  50  cents ;  Effie  Gifford,  50 
cents ;  R.  A.  Burch,  50  cents ;  Ada  Layman,  25  cents ;  Merl  Layman,  25 
cents ;  Anna  Madden,  25  cents ;  ,T.  C.  Farley,  25  cents ;  T.  A.  Farley,  25 
cents ;  Lena  Ewing,  25  cents ;  Ida  Race,  25  cents ;  Otis  Crandall,  25 
cents  ;  Eva  McCoy,  25  cents ;  Dellie  Farlie,  25  cents  ;  Hazel  Murray,  10 
cents ;  Silvia  Farley,  10  cents. 

Plainfield  Class. — Henry  Brooks,  $2 ;  Marion  Kibler,  $1 ;  Sam'l  White, 
$1 ;  W ash  Kibler,  $1  ;  Mary  Brooks,  $1 ;  A.  W.  Spraggens,  $1 ;  Ada 
Spencer,  35  cents;  Lawrence  White,  25  cents;  Henry  White,  25  cents. 
Total,  $7.85. 


Co  rtf  ere  nee  Pro  ceedi  n  rjs 


Instructions  to — 

Pastors . . . 44,  05 

Finance  Committee  .  57 

Conference  Trustees  . 52 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  Trustees  .  57 

Church  Extension  Fund  Treasurer  .  57 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  Secretary  .  42 

S.  Mills  .  .  •  • .  65 

Introduced  to  Conference  . 18 

Laymen — 

Amending  Boundary  Committee  Report  .  44 

Roll  of  . 6 

Report  of  .  59 

Missionary  Contributions  .  69 

Necrology  .  4 

Night  Services  . •  • .  18 

Notes .  18 


Officers  of — 

Conference  .  .  . 
Beneficiary  Aid 
Y.  P.  C.  E.  U. 
W.  M.  A . 


Place  of  Next  Meeting  .  42 

Pastors’  Reports  . •  •  .  .  30 

Pastors’  Support .  35 

Presiding  Elders'  Reports — 

Danville  District  . 19-22 

Olney  District  . •• . 23-26 

Westfield  District  . 26-28 

Presiding  Elder,  Instructions  to  . ••....  62 

Publishing  Missionary  Contributions  .  42 

Publishing  Minutes  . •  •  42 

Reports  of  Committees — 

On  Auditing  Accounts  .  61 

On  Beneficiary  Aid  . •  • .  55 

On  Bible  Cause  .  37 

On  Boundaries  . •  • .  62 

On  Christian  Stewardship  .  31 

On  Christian  Home  . •  • .  34 

On  Church  Erection  . 38 

On  Conference  Relations  . •  • .  40 

On  Education  .  53 

On  Elder’s  Orders  .  44 

On  Finance  .  64 

On  Foreign  Missions  . •  • .  32 

On  Home  Missions  . .  .  .  .• .  40 

On  Presiding  Elder  . •  ■ .  62 


88 


Conference  Proceedings 


INDEX. 


Church  Expenses  .  33 

Committees,  Special — 

Auditing  Committee  . 29,  61 

Assistant  Statistical  Secretary  this  Session  .  29 

Boundary  and  Finance  . 29,  34,  44,  62 

Candidates  for  the  Ministry . 29,  31 

Christian  Stewardship  .  34 

Conference  Relations  . 29,  40,  66 

Confusion  .  65 

Devotion  .  29 

Elders’  Orders  . •  • . 29,  44 

High  School  Visit  . . . . 41,  42,  48 

Memoirs  . •  • . 29,  55,  57,  60 

Pastors'  Salary  .  31 

Quarterly  Bulletin . •  • . 42,  57 

Tellers  . 62,  66 

Committees,  Standing  for  1911  .  19 

Conference  Proceedings  .  19 

'Conference  Record  .  7 

Conference  Treasurers’  Fees  .  61 

Conference  Chart  . 8,  16 

Constitution,  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  .  41 

Declaration  of  Intention  .  65 

Election — - 

Conference  Treasurer  pro  tern  .  19 

Conference  Treasurer  for  coming  Year  . 

Presiding  Elder .  44 

Recording  Secretary  .  •  •  .  57 

Statistical  Secretary  .  57 

Tellers  . •  • . 62 

Trustees — • 

Westfield  College  .  66 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  .  66 

Conference  . •  • .  66 

Examination  of  Licentiates  .  18 

Greetings — • 

Sent  to  P.  M.  Church  Conference .  19 

Se*nt  to  E.  O.  Conference  . , . 42 

Received  from  Branch  W.  M.  A .  51 

Home  Missionary  Committee  . . .  56 

Inactive  last  . 28.  40 


Conference  Proceedings 


On  Political  Status  . 

On  Publishing  Interests  . 

On  Resolutions  . 

On  Sunday  Schools  . 

On  Temperance  . 

On  Y.  P.  S.  C.  U . •  • . 

Reading  Courses — ■ 

First  Year  . 

Second  Year  . 

Third  Year . ’ . : . 

Fourth  Year  . 

Roll  of  Members- — 

Active  Itinerants  . 

Superannuated  Itinerants  . 

Supernumerary  Itinerants  . 

Local  Preachers  . 

Lay  Delegates  . . . 

Secretary’s  Fees  . 

Stationing  Committee's  Report . 

Summary  of  Statistics . 

Sunday  Services  . 

Sup’t  Anti-Saloon  League  . 

Treasurer's  Reports — 

Beneficiary  Aid  . 

Church  Erection  . 

Conference  . 

Church  Extension  . * . 

Trustees — • 

Standing  Resolution  on  Election  of  . 

Westfield  College  . 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association 
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Of  the 

United  Brethren  in  Christ 

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MAY  18 1973 

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University  of  Illinois 
at  Urbana-Champaign 

FIFTY-FOURTH  1  Q  1  1 

ANNUAL  SESSION  1  %7  1  1 


Minutes  of  the  Fifty-Fourth 
Annual  Session 


Lower  Wabash 
Conference 


Of  the 

Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ 
held  at  Danville,  Illinois 

August  23-27,  1911 


BISHOP  G.  M.  MATHEWS,  D.D.,  Presiding 
L.  H.  COOLEY,  Recording  Secretary 


Published  by  Order  of  the  Conference 


Dayton,  Ohio 
The  Otterbein  Frets 
1911 


OFFICERS  OF  CONFERENCE  ORGANIZATIONS 


Bishop. 

G.  M.  Mathews,  2502  N.  Kedzie  Boulevard,  Chicago,  III. 

Secretary. 

L.  H.  Cooley,  312  S.  17th  Street,  Mt.  Vernon,  Ill. 

Statistician. 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  1129  Chandler  Street,  Danville,  Ill. 

Conference  Treasurer , 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Beneficiary  Aid  Association. 

President — H.  W.  Broadstone,  901  S.  Lincoln  Street,  Robinson,  Ill 
Vice  President — D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  III. 

Secretary — T.  D.  Spyker,  Potomac,  Ill. 

Treasurer — J.  T.  McCreery,  1319  A.  State  Street,  E.  St.  Louis,  Ill. 

Young  People’s  Christian  Endeavor  Union. 

President — C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Ill. 

Vice  President — C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Recording  Secretary — Gladys  Jones,  Oblong,  Ill. 

Corresponding  Secretary — Mrs.  Ada  Ilouchen,  Sumner,  Ill. 
Superintendent  Foreign  Missions — H.  G.  Taylor,  Olney,  Ill. 
Superintendent  Home  Missions — Miss  Grace  Muncie,  Paris,  Ill. 
Superintendent  Christian  Stewardship — Paul  Connett,  Robinson,  111 
Superintendent  of  Education — W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 
Superintendent  of  Quiet  Hour — Miss  Lottie  Kruger,  Chestervil le,  III 
Superintendent  of  Juniors — Mrs.  Geneva  Schear,  Westfield,  Ill. 
Treasurer — E.  II.  McElfresh,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 


Westfield  College  Trustees. 

1912 —  W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

1913 —  J.  B.  Connett,  C.  C.  Hodges. 

1914 —  C.  C.  Rose.  J.  M.  England. 


Trustees  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association. 


President 

Secretary 

Treasurer 


G.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  W.  Fairchild  Street,  Danville,  111 


J.  T.  McCreery,  1919  A.  State  Street,  E.  St.  Louis.  III. 
J.  C.  Fowler,  Paris,  Ill. 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Ex-Officio  ■{  J.  B.  Connett,  Robinson,  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Til. 


Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship. 

L.  E.  Miller,  Toledo.  Ill. 

Q.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  W.  Fairchild  Street,  Danville,  III. 
C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield.  Ill. 


Conference  Proceedings 


Committee  on  Home  Missions. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Robinson,  Ill. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake,  Danville,  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

Woman’s  Branch  Missionary  Society. 

President — Mrs.  Rosa  Connett,  Robinson,  Ill. 

Secretary — Mrs.  N.  E.  Royer,  Borton,  Ill. 

Treasurer — Mrs.  Id  V.  Anderson,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Sabbath  School  Board  of  Control. 

C.  E„  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  702  E.  Pine  Street,  Robinson,  Ill. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Foreign  Missions. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville.  Ill. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  W'estfield,  Ill. 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Court  of  Appeals. 

D.  R.  Seneff  and  S.  Mills,  Westfield,  Ill. 

BooaM  Directors  General  Church  Erection. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Rossville,  Ill. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall,  Ill. 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  1129  Chandler  Street,  Danville,  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  702  E.  Pine  Street,  Robinson,  Ill. 

Standing  Committees. 

Church  Erection — O.  J.  Bogard. 

Education — L.  H.  Cooley. 

Publishing  Interests — F.  H.  King. 

Sunday-School  Interests — C.  A.  Hall. 

Christian  Endeavor  Union — N.  E.  Royer. 

The  Christian  Home — C.  O.  Myers. 

Temperance — R.  Griffin. 

Resolutions — E.  M.  Pierson. 

Bible  Cause — B.  C.  Peters. 

Course  of  Reading. 

First  Year’s  Committee — E.  E.  Bundy,  D.  C.  Ade,  C.  A.  Dwyer. 

Class — G.  W.  Padrick,  I.  J.  Knapp,  Miss  Daisy  Bowman. 

Second  Year’s  Committee' — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  J.  C.  Fowler,  R.  Griffin. 

Class — Miss  Elizabeth  Thompson,  B.  Blackburn,  R.  L.  Weber. 

Third  Year’s  Committee — T.  D.  Spyker,  N.  E.  Royer,  J.  T.  McCreery. 

Class — I.  S.  Mclver,  II.  S.  Reese,  O.  J.  Bogard,  W.  Beasly. 

Fourth  Year’s  Committee — «T.  B.  Norviel,  W.  R.  Muncie,  W.  C.  Harbert. 
Class — H.  A.  Bogard,  F.  H.  King. 


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Conference  Proceedings 


NECROLOGY 

Of  Members  from  the  Organization  of  the  Conference 


Cherished  Names.  Died. 

A.  Dunbar . 1860 

H.  S.  Stump  . 1860 

W.  H.  Brown  .  v . 1861 

S.  Coblentz  . 1862 

T.  B.  Tlirapp  . 1863 

A.  Sweasy  . 1864 

S.  Greason  . 1867 

H.  Clark  . 1871 

J.  Simpson,  Sr . 1872 

J.  H.  Bedwell  . 1873 

D.  Stoltz  . 1874 

A.  W.  Hedge . 1874 

S.  Hayworth  . 1874 

O.  P.  Hurst  . 1874 

J.  Severe  . 1875 

S.  Stark  . 1875 

J.  Cottman  . 1875 

B.  Lloyd  . 1875 

J.  Simpson,  Jr . 1876 

D.  Ross  . 1879 

P.  Story  . 1879 

M.  T.  Tobey  . 1880 

B.  Cole . 1880 

J.  P.  Sh'ue . 1880 

S.  G.  Brock . 1881 

W.  G.  Hartman  . 1881 

H.  Severn  . 1882 

IV.  McGinnis  . 1883 

S.  Ross  . 1883 

J.  Tobey  . 1884 

A.  Collins  . 1884 

J.  Burtner . 1884 


Cherished  Names.  Died , 

P.  Brock  . 1884 

S.  Allenbaugh  . 1884 

S.  C.  Stewart  . 1885 

M.  Hail  . 1885 

S.  B.  Allen  . 1886 

J.  L.  Cardwell  . 1889 

L.  S.  Chittenden  . 1892 

A.  Helton  . 1892 

J.  Grim  . 1892 

Daniel  Mater  . 1893 

A.  Briley  . 1893 

I.  W.  Williams . 1893 

J.  R.  Helton  . . 1896 

S.  Schlosser . 1896 

E.  Shuey  . 1897 

J.  Sheets  . 1898 

W.  Kauble  . 1898 

J.  G.  Shuey . 1901 

J.  J.  Page  . 1901 

S.  Keagy  . 1902 

D.  Bussard  . 1902 

A.  Rider . 1904 

S.  Smoot  . 1904 

W.  C.  Smith . 1905 

R.  Clark . 1906 

.T.  Dickens  . 1906 

W.  E.  Anderson  . 1908 

S.  Bussard  . 1908 

J.  H.  Penner . 1908 

J.  Peachy  . 1908 

W.  Quigley  . 1908 

J.  Cougill . 1910- 

B.  G.  Wood . 1911 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS 


Active  Itinerants. 

Ade,  D.  C . 

Albert,  W.  O . 

Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  . 

Ball,  G.  W . 

Boley,  E . 

Broadstone,  H.  W. 

Beasly,  W . 

Byard,  Z.  H . 

Bogard,  O.  J . 

Bogard,  H.  A . 

Bundy,  E.  E . 

Bonebrake,  G.  W.  . 

Connett,  J.  B . 

Cooley,  L.  H . 


Joined.  Ordained.  Post-Office. 

.  .  .  .  1909 . 1897 . White  Heath,  Ill. 

. Dayton,  Ohio. 

. Dayton,  Ohio. 

.  .  .  .  1890 . 1905 . Vergennes,  Ill. 

_ 1897 . 1900 . Olney,  Ill. 

....1874 . 1888 . 901  S.  Lincoln  Street. 

Robinson,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .  1907 . Vermilion,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .  1888 . 1891 . Ashmore,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .1906 . St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .  1906 . Martinsville,  Ill. 

....1908 . Chesterville,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .  1900 . 1902 . 308  W.  Fairchild  Street, 

Danville,  Ill. 

.  .  .  .  1886 . 1889 . Robinson,  Ill. 

_ 1881 . 1891 . 312  S.  17th  Street,  ML 

Vernon,  Ill. 


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CAT  'htrO 

m 


,-4. 


Conference  Proceedings 


Active  Itinerants. 
Dwyer,  C.  A . 


Joined.  Ordained. 


Post-Office. 


1910 . 1129  Chandler  Street. 

Danville,  Ill. 

Duncan,  W.  L . 1894 . 1900 . Olney,  Ill. 

Fisher,  I.  B . 1911 . 5025  Raymond  Ave.,  St. 

Louis,  Mo. 

J.  F . 1895 . 1901 . Moweaqua,  Ill.,  Route  2. 

J.  C . 1887 . 1891 . Lawrenceville,  Ill. 

R . .- . 1893 . 1896 . Olney,  Ill. 

A . 1903 . 1907 . Long  View,  Ill. 

W.  C . 1888 . 1891 . Olney,  Ill. 


Fowler, 
Fowler, 
Griffin, 
Hall,  C. 
Harbert, 


Street, 

Ill. 


Hudson,  II.  D . 1898 . 1901 . Sumner,  Ill. 

King,  F.  II . 1907 . Paris,  Ill. 

Lewald,  H.  A . 1910 . Olney,  Ill. 

Myers,  C.  0 . 1904 . 1907 . Penfield,  Ill. 

McCreery,  J.  T . 1891 . 1898 .  13.19  A.  State 

E.  St.  Louis, 

Miller,  L.  E . 1900 . 1903 . Toledo,  111. 

Muncie,  W.  R . 1877 . 1880 . Olney.  Ill. 

Mclver,  I.  S . 1902 . Flora,  Ill. 

Norviel,  J.  B . 1887 . 1890 . 702  E.  Pine  Street, 

Robinson,  Ill. 

Nash,  Mrs.  R.  J . 1905 . 1910 . Fisher,  Ill. 

Olmsted,  A.  J . 1910 . Johnstown,  Ill. 

Pierson,  E.  M . 1892 . 1896 . Marshall,  Ill. 

Padrick,  G.  W . 1902 . Westfield,  Ill. 

Perkins,  W.  L . 1902 . 1906 . Dayton,  Ohio. 

Peters,  B.  C . 1905 . Yale,  Ill. 

Phelps,  B.  B . 1?09 . 1895 . Rossville,  Ill. 

Oblong,  Ill. 

Casey,  Ill. 

Loogootee,  Ill. 
Borton,  Ill. 
Westfield,  Ill. 
Potomac,  Ill. 

St.  Francisville,  Ill. 
Findlay,  Ill. 
Oakwood,  Ill. 


Post-Office. 

lfield,  Ill. 

1861 . Westfield,  Ill. 

1859 . Holton,  Kan. 


Pellum,  G.  L.  ... 

. 1903. . . 

_ 1911 . 

Reese,  H.  S . 

. 1904. . 

Reid,  G.  W . 

. 1890. . . 

, . . . 1905 . 

Royer,  N.  E.  .  .  . 

. 1893. . , 

_ 1903 . 

Seneff,  D.  R . 

. 1885. . . 

_ 1888 . 

Spyker,  T.  D.  .  . 

. 1878. . , 

_ 1884 . 

Stcrltz,  S.  O.  .  .  . 

. 1897. . , 

_ 1900 . 

Sypolt,  B.  N.  .  .  . 

. 1911. . 

Watson,  M.  L.  .  . 

Superannuated 

Itinerants. 

Joined. 

Ordained. 

Johns,  E.  R.  .  .  . 

. 1886. . , 

_ 1890 . 

Mills,  S . 1859 _ 

Moore,  J.  F . 1861 _ 

Nye,  J.  W . Chrisman,  Ill. 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  C.  A . 1891 . 1894 Toledo,  Ill. 

Walters,  T . 1881 . 1891 . 


8  upernum  erary 
Itinerants. 


Joined.  Or 


Poster,  G.  W . 1^94 

Coffman,  J . 1870 

Coen,  H . 1900 

Fink,  F.  M . 1885 

Haycock,  W.  O.  , . 1894 

Ilolsapple,  J.  W . 1889 

Hall,  D.  T . 1909 

Keller,  G.  W . 1890 

Knapp,  T.  J . 1909 

Nickerson,  W.  II . 1908 

Perkins,  C.  W . 1909 

Shuey,  W.  R . 1862 

Smith,  J.  A . 1873, 

Stevenson,  D.  K . 1887 

Tipsword,  IT.  M . 1895, 

Tohill,  J . 1879. 

Thompson,  Miss  E . 1907 


dained.  Post-Office. 

1899 . Dahlgren,  Ill. 

1871 . Bluford,  Ill. 

1874 . Olney,  Ill. 

1898 . Rose  Hill,  Ill.,  R.  F. 

1901 . St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

1894 . Toledo,  Ill. 

. Rose  Hill,  Ill. 

. Taylorville,  Ill. 

. Fisher.  Ill. 

1909 . Westfield,  Ill. 

. Vergennes,  III. 

1869 . Westfield,  Ill. 

1878 . Bluford.  III. 

1893 . Toledo,  Ill. 

1898 . Toledo,  Ill. 

1889 . Oblong,  Ill. 

. Albion,  Ill. 


D. 


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Local  Preachers.  Joined. 


Post-Office. 


Byrd,  L . 1909 

Blackburn,  B . 1909 

Bowman,  Miss  Daisy  . 1909 

Easton,  J.  H . 1910 

Fear,  W.  L . 1911 

Gladwell,  C.  N . 1910 

Meek,  D.  F . 1910 

Sibert,  J.  E . 1911 

Spencer,  J.  E . 1911 

Story,  J.  T . 1911 

Webber,  R.  L . 1910 


Rossville,  Ill. 
Montezuma,  Ind. 
Danville,  Ill. 
Bluford,  Ill. 
Clarksburg,  Ill. 
Parkersburg,  Ill. 

Beecher  City,  Ill. 
Rose  Hill,  Ill. 
Wheeler,  Ill. 
Calhoun,  Ill. 


LAY  DELEGATES. 


Field. 

Delegate. 

Ashmore . 

.  J.  A.  Reprogle 

A vena . 

.  .  .  .  O.  Kepner 

Anapolis . 

.  ..C.  C.  Hodges 

Broadlands . 

.  M.  Smith 

Beecher  City . 

W.  C.  Hubbartt 

Birds . 

_ F.  D.  Fitch 

Bluford . 

.  .  E.  H.  Carson 

Chesterville . 

.  T.  Hood 

Clarksburg . 

.E.  E.  Compton 

Casey  Station . 

. W.  David 

Casey  Circuit . 

Danville,  1st  Church 

....  A.  G.  Trent 

Danville,  Perryville 

Mission . 

.  .  .  Anna  Davis 

Danville  Circuit.... 

Delhi . 

Frank  Brinson 

Fisher . 

A.  Deffenbaugh 

Findlay . 

Flora . 

,M.  0.  Cullison 

Galton . 

Greenup . 

Hillany . 

Island  Grove . 

.  E.  T.  McCarty 

Johnstown . 

.  James  Beales 

Locust  Grove . 

Loogootee . 

Lawrenceville . 

Field. 

Delegate. 

Martinsville . 

Marshall . 

....Mary  E.  Good 

Mt.  Vernon . 

. L.  S.  Wood 

New  Hebron . 

Olney  Circuit .  .  .  . 

Olney  Station .  .  .  . 

Oblong . 

Otterbein . 

Oakwood . 

Paris . Mrs.  A.  J.  Henderson 

Penfield . 

.  Mrs.  Mary  Kieser 

Parkersburg . 

Potomac . 

Redmon . 

. J.  R.  Blair 

Rossville . 

_ R.  T.  Phillips 

Robinson . 

St.  Francisville .  .  . 

Sumner . . 

Toledo . 

. J.  G.  Hillard 

Vergennes . 

Vienna . 

Vermilion . 

West  Salem . 

Westfield  Station . 

Westfield  Circuit. 

White  Heath . 

. H.  M.  Curl 

Yale . 

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CONFERENCE  RECORD  FROM  ORGANIZATION 


Time . 


Place. 


Bishop. 


Mar.  17-21,  1859 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards 

Mar.  22-25,  1860 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Edwards 

Mar.  21-24,  1861 . Vermilion,  Ill . Edwards 

Mar.  13-16,  1862 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards 

Mar.  26-29,  1863 . Centerpoint,  Ind.. .  .Edwards 

Mar.  31-April  4,  1864. .  Vermilion,  111 . Edwards 

Sept.  8-11,  1864 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Edwards 

Sept.  7 — ,  1865 . Parkersburg,  Ill. ..  .Weaver . 

Aug.  22-25,  1866 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver. 

Aug.  27-31,  1867 . Prairieton,  Ind . Weaver. 

Aug.  19-23,  1868 . Vermilion,  Ill . Weaver. 

Aug.  19-23,  1869 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards 

Sept.  14-19.  1870 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Edwards 

Sept.  6-11,  1871.  .  .  .-.  .Terre  Haute,  Ind..  .Edwards 

Aug.  21-26,  1872 . New  Goshen,  Ind. ..  Edwards 

Aug.  4-9,  1873 . Westfield,  Ill . Dickson. 

Oct.  8-12,  1874 . Prairieton,  Ind . Dickson. 

Sept.  29-Oct.  2,  1875  ..  Vermilion,  Ill . Dickson. 

Oct.  4-8,  1876 . Middlebury,  Ind . Dickson. 

Sept.  26-30,  1877 . Centerpoint.  Ind. ...  Weaver . 

Oct.  9-13,  1878 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver. 

Oct.  15-19,  1879 . Vermilion,  Ill . Weaver. 

Oct.  6-10,  1880 . Centerpoint,  Ind. ..  .Weaver . 

Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1881..  New  Goshen,  Ind. .  .  Kephart . 

Sept.  6-10,  1882 . Parkersburg.  Ill. ...  Kephart . 

Sept.  19-23,  1883 . Westfield,  Ill . Kephart. 

Sept.  17-21,  1884 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Kephart . 

Sept.  30-Oct.  4,  1885. .  Redmon,  Ill . Castle... 

Sept.  29-Oct.  3,  1886.  .Centerpoint,  Ind. ...  Kephart . 
Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1887..  New  Hebron.  Ill. ...  Weaver . 

Sept.  26-30,  1888 . Westfield,  Ill . Dickson. 

Sept.  25-29,  1889 . Clay  City,  Ind . Kephart. 

Sept.  24-30,  1890 . Paris.  Ill . Castle... 

Aug.  26-30,  1891 . Westfield.  Ill . Weaver.. 

Aug.  31-Sept.  4,  1892.. Clay  City.  Ind . Dickson. 

Aug.  30-Sept.  4,  1893.. Terre  Haute.  Ind. .  .  Hott .  .  .  . 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1894 .. Westfield.  Ill . Castle... 

Aug.  28-Sept.  1,  1895 .  .Oblong.  Ill . Kephart. 

Sept.  9-13,  1896 . Paris.  Ill . Mills _ 

Sept.  22-26,  1897 . Clay  City.  Ind . Weaver.. 

Sept.  21-25,  1898 . Terre  Haute.  Ind. .  .Castle.  .  . 

Aug.  30-Sept.  3,  1899.  .Westfield.  Ill . Castle... 

Sept.  5°,  1900 . Olnev,  Ill . Weaver.. 

Sept.  4-8.  1901 . Casev,  Ill . Hott _ 

Aug.  27-31,  1902 . Oblong,  Ill . Mathews. 

Aug.  26-30,  1903 . Torre  Haute,  Ind. .  .Mathews. 

Aug.  17-21,  1904 . Mt.  Vernon.  Ill . Mathews. 

Sept.  6-11,  1905 . Olnev.  Ill . Mathews. 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1906 .  .Westfield,  Ill . Mathews. 

Aug.  21-25,  1907 . Terre  ITaute.  Ind. ..  Mathews. 

Aug.  19-23,  1908 . Paris.  Ill . Mathews. 

Aug.  18-22,  1909 . Casey.  Ill . Mathews. 

Sept.  7-11,  1910 . Robinson,  Ill . Bell . 

Aug.  23-27,  1911 . Danville,  Ill . Mathews. 


Secretaries. 

.  AV.  C.  Smith. 

.  .W.  C.  Smith. 

.  AV.  C.  Smith. 

.  AV.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills. 

.  AV.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills. 

.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  .S.  Mills,  G.  W.  Keller. 

.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  .S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

.  ..T.  II.  Ross,  W.  C.  Smith. 

.  J.  H.  Ross,  S.  Mills. 

.  .S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

.  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

.  S.  Mills,  W.  II.  Long. 

.  S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

.  S.  Mills,  H.  L.  Brengle, 

.  .S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

.  .S.  Mills,  H.  L.  Brengle. 

.  .S.  Mills. 

.  .S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

.  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

.  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

.  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

•  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

•  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

•  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

.  .S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

.  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

■  S.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

•S.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

•S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

.  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

•  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

•  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

.  L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 
L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 
•L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 
•L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

•  L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 
•L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

•  L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

•  L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

. L.  IT.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

•  L.  H.  Cooley,  J.  A.  Hawkins. 

•  Edw.  Boley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

•  A.  D.  Markley,  W.  L.  Perkins. 

•  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  IT.  Cooley. 

•  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  IT.  Cooley. 

•  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  IT.  Cooley. 
L.  H.  Cooley,  W.  L.  Perkins. 
L.  H.  Cooley,  C.  A.  Dwyer. 


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FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Name  of  Preacher. 

\ 

No.  Churches 

Organized. 

New  Churches 

Organized. 

1 

No.  Churches 

Disorganized. 

At  Beginning  of 

Year. 

Received  by 

Prof,  of  Faith. 

Ashmore . 

T.  H.  Decker . 

3 

174 

3 

Avena . 

C.  E.  Hogue . 

4 

197 

55 

Annapolis . 

B.  C.  Peters . 

4 

2 

214 

6 

Broadlands . 

M.  L.  Watson . 

3 

165 

12 

Beecher  Citv . 

Edgar  Seibert . 

3 

169 

1 

Birds . ' . 

G.  W.  Ball . 

5 

184 

2 

Blueford . 

J.  F.  Fowler . 

6 

1 

371 

76 

Chesterville . 

C.  A.  Hall . 

1 

172 

15 

Clarksburg . 

J.  H.  Easton . 

4 

166 

3 

Casey  Circuit . 

H.  S.  Reese . 

4 . 

210 

22 

Casey  Station . 

C.  S.  Parker . 

1 

210 

5 

Danville  Station . 

G.  W.  Bonebrake . 

1 

246 

Danville,  Perrysville  Avenue 

Sarah  D.  Bowman . 

1 

17 

20 

Danville  Circuit . 

C.  A.  Dwyer . 

3 

236 

37 

Fisher . 

W.  R.  Muncie . 

2 

179 

17 

Findlay . 

B.  N.  Sypolt . 

2 

133 

Flora  Circuit . 

I.  S.  M elver . 

5 

380 

10 

Galton . 

M.  F.  Hawley . 

2 

130 

Greenup . 

A.  J.  Olmstead . 

6 

163 

i 

Hillery' . 

C.  Farey . . 

1 

80 

12 

Island  Grove . 

J.  F.  Spencer . 

3 

169 

Johnstown . 

Mary  Mitchell . 

4 

134 

4 

Locust  Grove . 

E.  E.  Bundy . 

1 

150 

3 

Loogootee . 

G.  W.  Reid' . 

r* 

o 

185 

21 

Lawrenceville . 

J.  C.  Fowler . 

2 

92 

122 

Martinsville . 

J.  L.  Pellum . 

4 

333 

Marshall . 

E.  M.  Pierson . 

1 

78 

2 

Mt.  Vernon . 

L.  H.  Cooley . 

1 

75 

8 

New  Hebron . 

S.  O.  Stolz . 

4 

304 

28 

Olnev  Circuit . 

W.  Harbert . 

5 

320 

17 

Olney  Station . 

W.  L.  Duncan . 

1 

329 

17 

Oblong . 

R.  Griffin . 

1 

158 

5 

Otterbein . 

Arthur  Beldon . 

2 

61 

23 

Oakwood . 

T.  D.  Spyker . 

3 

158 

Paris . . 

J.  B.  Glick . 

1 

327 

32 

Penfield . 

C.  O.  Meyers . 

2 

120 

5 

Parkersburg . 

C.  N.  Gladwell . 

5 

288 

26 

Potomac. . 

H.  D.  Hudson . 

2 

175 

21 

Redman . 

N.  E.  Royer . 

3 

278 

11 

Rossville . 

B.  B.  Phelps . 

3 

218 

6 

Robinson . 

J.  B.  Norviel . 

1 

270 

20 

St.  Francisville . 

O.  J .  Bogard . 

3 

422 

15 

Sumner . 

L.  E.  Miller . 

r' 

o 

372 

5 

Toledo . 

H.  F.  King . 

3 

135 

2 

Yergennes . 

G.  W.  Padrick . 

4 

1 

242 

54 

Vienna . 

J.  W.  Bobb . 

5 

171 

22 

Vermilion . 

W.  Beasley . 

2 

158 

2 

West  Salem . 

H.  A.  Bogard . 

4 

382 

8 

Westfield  Station . 

H.  H.  Heberly . 

1 

224 

14 

Westfield  Circuit . 

Z.  H.  Byard, . 

4 

219 

10 

White  Heath . 

D .  C .  Ade . 

3 

136 

23 

Yale . 

F.  P.  Allender . 

4 

324 

5 

Delhi . 

H.  W.  Broadstone . 

2 

152 

25 

East  St.  Louis 

T.  T.  McCreerv 

Grand  Total . 

155 

2 

2 

*10955 

853 

*  You  will  observe  that  this  number  is  13  more  than  last  year’s  Minutes  make  the  num¬ 
ber  at  close  of  last  year.  But  I  could  not  adjust  it  because  of  pastor’s  failing  to  proper¬ 
ly  observe  numbers  arising  from  change  of  boundaries. 


I 


Conference  Proceedings 


Received  by 
Letter. 

Total  in  Church. 
During  Year. 

- 1 - 

Died. 

All  other  losses. 

Total  Loss. 

Present 

Number. 

Increase. 

Decrease. 

Young  People’s 

Societies. 

Members. 

Junior  Societies. 

Members. 

Brotherhoods. 

Members. 

Sunday  Schools. 

Teachers 

and  Officers. 

Scholars  in 

Main  Schools. 

177 

11 

11 

166 

8 

2 

37 

3 

30 

130 

4 

256 

2 

28 1  30 

226 

29 

3 

25 

240 

220 

l!  58 

59 

161 

53 

1 

20 

3 

30 

130 

177 

2 

49 

51 

126 

39 

1 

30 

1 

15 

3 

25 

300 

170 

18 

18 

152 

17 

1 

20 

1 

13 

3 

39 

170 

3 

189 

3 

19 

22 

167 

17 

4 

32 

250 

447 

13 

9 

22 

425 

54 

2 

95 

6 

40 

450 

1 

188 

4 

184 

12 

1 

80 

i 

35 

1 

30 

1 

16 

175 

9 

178 

2 

6 

8 

170 

4 

| 

2 

27 

170 

232 

12 

12 

24 

208 

2 

4 

44 

210 

14 

229 

3 

9 

12 

217 

7 

1 

40 

l 

80 

1 

19 

291 

/ 

253 

4 

19 

23 

230 

16 

1 

30 

l 

60 

1 

20 

1 

27 

186 

37 

1 

1 

36 

19 

1 

27 

l 

18 

1 

10 

50 

273 

6 

15 

21 

252 

16 

1 

42 

3 

43 

200 

196 

2 

19 

21 

175 

4 

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2 

24 

150 

1 

134 

3 

3 

131 

2 

1 

31 

2 

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2 

25 

160 

390 

2 

46 

48 

342 

38 

1 

20 

1 

20 

4 

48 

275 

4 

134 

1 

15 

16 

118 

12 

1 

24 

2 

28 

164 

43 

43 

121 

42 

3 

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145 

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30 

31 

61 

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5 

174 

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7 

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166 

3 

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175 

1 

139 

5 

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132 

2 

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33 

200 

3 

156 

3 

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16 

140 

10 

1 

24 

1 

18 

112 

3 

209 

12 

12 

197 

12 

5 

48 

240 

2 

216 

9 

9 

207 

115 

2 

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1 

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2 

32 

199 

333 

5 

17 

22 

311 

22 

2 

75 

4 

41 

243 

8 

88 

2 

5 

7 

81 

3 

1 

28 

1 

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1 

23 

65 

83 

1 

18 

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64 

11 

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1 

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100 

2 

334 

1 

21 

22 

312 

8 

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1 

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260 

1 

338 

4 

5 

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329 

9 

1 

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5 

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240 

2 

348 

5 

28 

33 

315 

14 

1 

62 

1 

75 

1 

31 

250 

4 

167 

2 

11 

13 

154 

4J 

1 

40 

1 

45 

1 

19 

200 

2 

86 

4 

4 

82 

21 

2 

13 

80 

-•  •  •  • 

158 

2 

5 

7 

151 

7 

3 

24 

80 

2 

361 

2 

68 

70 

291 

36 

1 

50 

1 

40 

1 

18 

203 

5 

130 

8 

8 

122 

2 

1 

35 

1 

17 

2 

241 

160 

5 

319 

6 

21 

27 

292 

4 

1 

29 

1 

31 

5 

68 

385 

5 

201 

4 

6 

10 

191 

16 

1 

15 

2 

27 

260 

8 

297 

3 

10 

13 

284 

6 

2 

54 

3 

35 

300 

6 

230 

2 

10 

12 

218 

2 

56 

1 

25 

3 

30 

234 

6 

296 

27 

27 

269 

i 

1 

52 

1 

48 

1 

19 

244 

437 

3 

24 

27 

410 

12 

3 

120 

2 

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58 

350 

i 

378 

2 

11 

13 

365 

7 

4 

98 

1 

30 

5 

58 

368 

3 

140 

3 

3 

137 

2 

1 

13 

3 

29 

210 

«  •  •  • 

296 

2 

2 

294 

52 

2 

6 

1 

.... 

40 

.... 

4 

40 

326 

•  •  • 

193 

i 

71 

72 

121 

50 

4 

32 

170 

li 

171 

3 

38 

41 

130 

28 

2 

55 

2 

30 

160 

390 

5 

30 

35 

355 

27 

1 

25 

2 

25 

4 

50 

200 

ii 

249 

4 

21 

25 

224 

1 

60 

2 

75 

1 

75 

1 

20 

393 

229 

2 

16 

18 

211 

8 

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2 

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8 

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15 

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1087 

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423 

514 

54 

1865 

27 

882 

5 

150 

145 

1644  11029 

9 


Conference  Proceedings 


FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Scholars  in 

Home  Dept. 

Number  in 

Cradle  Roll. 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Average 

Attendance. 

No.  Adult 

Bible  Classes. 

Scholars  in  Ad’t 

Bible  Classes. 

Sunday-school 

Libraries. 

i 

Volumes  in 

Libraries. 

Added  Church 

from  S.  S. 

Religious 

Telescope. 

Watchword . 

Friend  for 

Boys  and  Girls. 

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n  ^ 

Ashmore . 

8 

-168 

70 

3 

12 

25 

' 

5 

Avena . 

265 

180 

3 

62 

36 

4 

Annapolis . 

.... 

160 

100 

10 

25 

12 

Broadlands . 

10 

30 

365 

150 

1 

10 

12 

6 

1  20 

13 

Beecher  City . 

209 

112 

33 

1  O 

n 

Birds . . . 

45 

327 

125 

3 

40 

.  ; 

21 

15 

25 

8 

Blueford . 

7 

560 

350 

7 

82 

25 

35 

24 

35 

Chesterville . 

22 

213 

200 

4 

50 

8 

9 

20 

20 

10 

Clarksburg . 

197 

90 

2 

65 

' 

20 

15 

7 

Casey  Circuit . 

10 

264 

100 

14 

1 '  '  ' 

1  15 

Casey  Station . 

20 

30 

360 

172 

7 

130 

4 

17 

100 

8 

60 

12 

Danville  Station . 

86 

20 

319 

110 

5 

69 

1 

9 

6 

24 

60 

12 

Danville,  Perrvsville  Ave... 

10 

70 

36 

1 

10 

8 

1 

10 

18 

5 

Danville  Circuit . 

12 

45 

300 

160 

8 

104 

19 

21 

53 

15 

10 

Fisher . 

6 

18 

198 

150 

14 

10 

12 

6 

Findlay . 

5 

190 

100 

5 

.  . 

113 

k. 

1 

9 

28 

4 

Flora  Circuit . 

1 

276 

200 

7 

75 

3 

18 

~35 

1  ]  5 

Galton . 

95 

58 

4 

55 

5 

16 

6 

Greenup . 

183 

100 

1 

17 

i 

5 

1 

Hillery  * . 

89 

51 

20 

5 

Island  Grove . . 

140 

350 

100 

I  ! 

13 

3 

Johnstown . 

5 

Locust  Grove . 

130 

80 

19 

18 

6 

Loogootee . 

288 

200 

_ r  '  !  \ 

9 

1 

~24 

24 

Lawrenceville . 

113 

307 

150 

15 

27 

75 

30 

1 5 

Martinsville . 

25 

29 

338 

180 

2 

31 

I 

19 

38 

18 

Marshall . 

17 

105 

55 

4 

45 

2' 

11 

21 

18 

Mt.  Vernon . 

114 

50 

9 

10 

28 

5 

New  Hebron . 

305 

190 

40 

60 

40 

20 

Olney  Circuit . 

16 

80 

386 

260 

28 

32 

16 

Olney  Station . 

52 

46 

379 

143 

5 

85 

14 

33 

25 

2 

Oblong . 

70 

289 

120 

3 

100 

i 

25 

20 

30 

12 

Otterbein . 

20 

113 

70 

17 

10 

Oakwood . 

20 

25 

149 

100 

i 

.  .  .  . 

10 

4 

2 

1 

Paris . 

20 

30 

271 

125 

5 

84 

25 

60 

30 

8 

Penfield . 

35 

219 

109 

3 

4o 

19 

75 

10 

Parkersburg . 

36 

489 

217 

29 

50 

10 

10 

Potomac . 

9 

24 

320 

175 

8 

25 

70 

30 

15 

Redman . 

76 

47 

458 

280 

6 

121 

4 

23 

50 

12 

Rossville . 

18 

28 

310 

147 

...J 

.... 

21 

50 

50 

Robinson . 

50 

36 

349 

142 

2 

90 

5 

32 

60 

10 

St.  Francisville . 

25 

21 

454 

260 

7 

110 

...  1 

55 

80 

30 

Sumner . 

20 

45 

491 

275 

l 

o 

70 

4] 

36 

73 

30 

26 

Toledo . 

12 

66 

317 

100 

4 

77 

19 

26 

30 

Vergennes . 

50 

50 

466 

300 

• 

42 

20 

40 

Vienna . 

102 

90 

4 

2 

Vermilion . 

53 

32 

275 

1251 

7 

90 

2 

18 

16 

50 

13 

West  Salem . 

250 

200, 

5 

70 

8 

31! 

20 

5 

Westfield  Station . 

50 

48; 

511 

190  j 

4 

185 

22 

33! 

18 

Westfield  Circuit . 

153 

105' 

12 

20 

White  Heath.'. . 

17 

6 

165 

60; 

1 

19' 

12 

12 

40 

9 

Yale . 

1 

290 

225 1 

20 

65 

8 

Delhi . 

396 

. 

186 

10 

6 

8 

10 

10 

East  St.  Louis . 

Grand  Total . 

787 

1 155j 

14336 

1 

8163 

121 

2004 

3 

34 

229 

980  1444 

i 

750 

489 

10 


Conference  Proceedings 


- 


Otterbein  Adult 
Quarterly 

Otterbein  Senior 
Quarterly 

Otterbein  Int. 
Quarterly 

Otterbein  Home 
Dept.  Quarterly. 

Weekly  Bible 
Lesson  Leaves. 

Lessons  for 

Our  Juniors. 

Graded  Series 

Primary. 

Graded  Series 

Intermediates. 

Graded  Series 

Juniors. 

i 

Woman’s 

Evangel. 

Froeliche 

Botschafter 

Jugend  Pilger. 

Pastor’s  Salary 

Paid  by  Charge. 

Missionary 

Appropriation. 

Presents 

Received. 

50 

60 

i 

| 

40 

392  42 

55  00 

25 

50 

50 

|  20 

45 

400  00 

80  00 

12 

I.,... 

I 

3 

i 

385  00 

100  00 

60 

120 

30 

10 

20 

30 

580  00 

43  40 

70  47 

5 

47 

274  00 

46  00 

30 

156 

65 

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50 

378  80 

50  00 

45 

125 

75 

!  20 

30 

583  95 

50  00 

45 

45 

50 

50 

20 

625  00 

150  00 

’  40 

40  20 

45 

45 

409  00 

100  00 

145 

65 

! 

550  00 

101  00 

40 

150 

75 

20 

50 

25 

25 

1,000  00 

45  00 

70 

70 

40 

100 

i 

30 

30 

8 

650  00 

350  00 

80  00 

15 

16 

5 

16 

125  65 

350  CO 

23  10 

44 

100 

90 

12 

20 

59 

20 

25 

18 

12 

775  00 

25  00 

40 

60 

40 

20 

30 

2 

500  00 

40  00 

130 

40 

281  90 

169  16 

30  00 

190 

90 

75 

600  00 

72  75 

20 

30 

8 

650  00 

25  00 

80 

20 

30 

197  32 

14  50 

10 

30 

10 

50  00 

1  00 

100 

75 

75 

40 

300  00 

5  00 

50 

40 

253  84 

24  00 

50 

25 

15 

10 

25 

15 

11 

600  00 

19  00 

80 

120 

40 

520  00 

45  00 

100 

25 

25 

1 

500  00 

400  00 

127  79 

12 

139 

74 

12 

45 

50 

13 

555  00 

25  00 

40 

15 

10 

.  8 

3 

367  48 

300  00 

130  78 

25 

50 

321  37 

335  33 

200 

40 

90 

9 

723  25 

20 

160 

70 

12 

2 

520  00 

22  00 

75 

120 

80 

46 

35 

12 

780  00 

120  00 

35 

30 

40 

20 

30 

•  ••  •  • 

735  00 

53  00 

40 

75 

50 

40 

462  00 

20  00 

50 

20 

40 

20 

1 

635  00 

25  00 

125 

35 

20 

30 

7 

688  82 

100 

35 

50 

3 

650  00 

31  00 

257 

80 

52 

62 

650  00 

150  00 

130 

60 

9 

706  75! 

39  25 

225 

75 

76 

60 

26 

633  33 

42  00 

165 

65 

25 

55 

678  51 

72  87 

50 

100 

100 

50 

50 

40 

17 

800  00! 

157  44 

24 

180 

75 

25 

60 

12 

800  00 ! 

70  00 

•  •  •  •  • 

200 

110 

20 

45 

3 

627  69 

44  75 

65 

12 

40 

12 

10 

20 

12 

440  00 

300  00 

75  00 

260 

260 

50 

200 

445  00 

35  00 

95 

40 

20 

35 

165  00 

32  00 

90 

45 

20 

30 

9 

481  70 

71  95 

60 

150 

150 

75 

75'.  .  .  . 

6 

625  00 

50  00 

140 

50 

50 

50 

13 

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54 

800  00 

50  00 

95 

50 

1 

40  .  .  . 

409  60 

7  10 

18 

98 

12 

17 

28 1' _ 

387  52 

45  00 

238 

40 

40  .  .  . 

361  34 

40  88 

125 

125 

35' .  .  . 

1 

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65  00 

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4429 

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27,460  89 

! 

2,754  49 

2,827  56 

11 


Conference  Proceedings 


FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Value  of  Parson¬ 

age  Rent. 

Total  Received 

by  Pastor. 

« 

Presiding 

Elder’s  Salary. 

I - 

Collected  for 

Local  Current 

Expenses. 

For  Church  and 

Parsonage 

Buildings. 

Collected  for 

Local  S.  S. 

Purposes. 

Ashmore . 

60  00 

507  42 

26  00 

59  00 

100  00 

41  00 

Avena . 

50  00 

530  00 

21  00 

Annapolis . 

485  00 

32  00 

25  00 

Broadlands . 

60  00 

683  40 

41  00 

219  45 

292  98 

90  00 

Beecher  Citv . 

60  00 

380  00 

21  00 

78  00 

71  7  o 

Birds . .' . 

100  00 

528  80 

29  00 

85  00 

100  00 

125  00 

Blueford . 

75  00 

708  95 

35  00 

160  00 

670  50 

60  00 

Chesterville . 

100  00 

875  00 

20  00 

120  00 

100  CO 

110  00 

Clarksburg . 

75  00 

584  10 

24  00 

30  00 

100  20 

38  20 

Casey  Circuit . 

100  00 

751  00 

32  00 

95  00 

75  00 

Casey  Station . 

180  00 

1,225  00 

38  00 

300  00 

25  00 

254  00 

Danville  Station . 

144  00 

1,124  00 

32  00 

300  00 

400  00 

180  00 

Danville,  Perrvsville  Avenue.  . 

498  15 

7  50 

24  79 

1,502  00 

19  69 

Danville  Circuit . 

192  00 

992  00 

35  00 

75  00 

2.885  00 

200  93 

Fisher . 

60  00 

600  00 

30  00 

50  00 

275  00 

60  00 

Findlay . 

30  00 

511  06 

19  00 

20  47 

55  83 

Flora  Circuit . 

672  75 

35  CO 

75  00 

742  00 

150  00 

Galton . 

100  00 

775  00 

25  00 

196  10 

10  00 

56  73 

Greenup . 

211  82 

18  00 

Hillery! . 

51  00 

7  00 

80  00 

Island  Grove . 

305  00 

22  00 

30  00 

Johnstown . 

277  84 

18  00 

42  00 

56  75 

Locust  Grove . 

191  00 

810  00 

32  00 

112  00 

138  00 

55  66 

Loogootee . 

100  00 

665  00 

30  00 

100  00 

60  00 

Lawrenceville . 

1,027  79 

19  00 

200  00 

1,500  00 

120  00 

Martinsville . 

575  00 

38  00 

141  17 

122  24 

Marshall . 

50  00 

848  26 

17  00 

138  80 

208  20 

80  00 

Mt.  Vernon . 

656  70 

19  00 

39  77 

2,236  00 

59  19 

New  Hebron . 

723  25 

38  00 

200  00 

225  00 

Olney  Circuit . 

60  00 

602  20 

38  00 

240  00 

260  00 

70  00 

Olney  Station . 

•  100  00 

1,000  00 

32  00 

300  00 

1,000  00 

128  89 

Oblong . 

150  00 

938  00 

28  00 

95  99 

120  19 

121  13 

Otterbein . 

482  00 

15  85 

79  00 

16  17 

Oakwood . 

60  00 

720  00 

35  00 

60  00 

10  00 

25  00 

Paris . 

150  00 

838  82 

35  00 

193  35 

115  00 

203  53 

Penfield . 

681  00 

29  00 

88  00 

50  00 

125  00 

Parkersburg . 

75  00 

875  00 

40  00 

248  50 

290  85 

102  00 

Potomac . 

100  00 

846  00 

38  00 

129  92 

200  00 

122  28 

Redman . 

100  00 

775  33 

40  00 

205  00 

350  00 

165  00 

Rossville . 

120  00 

871  38 

36  00 

243  90 

124  87 

Robinson . 

100  00 

1,057  44 

30  00 

300  00 

200  00 

St.  Francisville . 

150  00 

1,020  00 

43  00 

290  00 

750  00 

300  00 

Sumner . 

150  00 

822  44 

41  00 

190  00 

81  00 

351  50 

Toledo . 

100  00 

915  00 

30  00 

100  00 

1,000  00 

110  00 

Vergennes . 

75  00 

555  00 

26  00 

294  00 

Vienna . 

48  00 

245  00 

20  00 

50  00 

Vermilion . 

100  00 

653  65 

31  00 

389  81 

100  79 

103  00 

West  Salem . 

675  00 

35  00 

150  00 

75  00 

Westfield  Sation . 

120  00 

970  00 

45  00 

265  00 

45  00 

169  37 

Westfield  Circuit . 

416  70 

24  85 

98  61 

65  00 

White  Heath . 

120  00 

552  52 

25  75 

73  42 

347  60 

78  17 

Yale . 

75  00 

477  22 

40  00 

100  00 

488  00 

78  00 

Delhi . 

710  25 

18  00 

219  fin 

96  00 

East  St.  Louis . 

356  00 

Th  is  charge 

being  a  ne 

w  mission 

Grand  Total . 

3,680  00 

36,739  24 

1,235  95 

7,388  70 

1 

16,598  51 

5,196  88 

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FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Sunday-School 

General  Fund. 

Y.  P.  S.  C.  E. 

General  Fund. 

Brotherhood 

General  Fund. 

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Offering. 

Bishop’s  Salary. 

Preacher’s  Aid. 

Preacher’s  Aid 

for  Conference 

Beneficiary 

Education. 

Bonebrake 

Theological 

Seminary. 

Ashmore . 

1  00 

2  63* 

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8  00  . 

3  18 

1  00 

2  00 

Avena . 

4  00 

8  00  . 

5  00 

2  00 

6  00 

Annapolis . 

10  00  . 

7  00 

3  00 

5  00 

Broadlands . 

6  00 

5  93 

13  00  . 

1  00 

4  00 

Beecher  City. . . 

1  00 

7  00  . 

.  .4  00 

2  00 

3  00 

Birds . 

4  00 

4  50 

9  00  . 

6  00 

4  00 

7  00 

Blueford . 

5  00 

11  00 . 

8  00 

2  00 

40  00 

Chesterville . 

3  00 

4  20 

6  00  . 

4  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Clarksburg . 

3  00 

2  10 

8  00  . 

5  00 

Casey  Circuit . 

2  00 

6  06 

10  00  . 

5  00 

2  00 

6  00 

Casev  Station . 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

12  00  . 

8  00 

3  00 

34  00 

Danville  Station . 

4  00 

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1  20 

10  00  . 

6  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Danville,  Perry sville  Ave.  .  .  . 

1  00 

90 

1  13 

2  00  . 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

Danville  Circuit . 

4  00 

6  00 

11  00 . 

7  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Fisher . 

6  30 

10  00  . 

2  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Findlay . 

1  00 

3  35 

6  00  . 

1  00 

1  00 

2  00 

Flora  Circuit . 

12  00  . 

3  00 

Galton . 

5  29 

6  78 

7  00  . 

4  00 

5  00 

5  00 

Greenup . 

6  00  . 

2  00 

Hillery  * . 

1 

Island  Grove . 

1  04 

5  00  . 

Tohnstown . 

6  00  . 

Locust  Grove . 

2  63 

2  46 

10  00  . 

6  00 

3  00 

Loogootee . 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

2  00 

Lawrenceville . 

6  00 

4  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Martinsville . 

5  06 

7  00 

12  00 

8  00 

4  00 

5  00 

Marshall . 

2  00 

.  .3  87 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

1  00 

5  00 

Mt.  Vernon . 

40 

50 

60 

40 

50 

New  Hebron . 

5  00 

8  23 

5  25 

2  00 

8  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Olney  Circuit . 

6  30 

12  00 

8  00 

6  00 

Onlev  Station . 

3  00 

7  35 

6  86 

10  00 

7  00 

Oblong . 

1  00 

8  00 

2  00 

1  00 

4  00 

Otterbein . 

4  00 

4  00 

Oakwood . 

2  00 

11  00 

6  00 

1  50 

5  00 

Paris . 

7  00 

3  50 

10  00 

7  00 

3  00 

7  00 

Penfield . 

1  00 

2  00 

9  00 

1  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Parkersburg . 

5  00 

6  00 

13  00 

9  00 

Potomac . 

5  00 

10  50 

12  00 

8  00 

3  00 

9  00 

Redman . 

5  00 

3  00 

12  00 

8  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Rossville . 

4  00 

7  47 

11  00 

8  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Robinson . 

4  00 

3  85 

10  00 

6  00 

3  00 

7  00 

St.  Francis ville . 

6  00 

9  00 

13  CO 

9  00 

4  00 

9  00 

Sumner . 

5  00 

1  67 

5  00 

13  00 

8  00 

4  00 

8  00 

Toledo . 

3  00 

10  00 

5  00 

3  00 

5  55 

A’ergennes . 

4  00 

5  25 

8  00 

5  00 

2  00 

6  00 

Vienna.  .  .  . 

Vermilion . 

4  00 

6  34 

9  00 

6  00 

2  00 

7  00 

West  Salem . 

5  00 

2  00 

11  00 

7  00 

-  3  00 

5  00 

Westfield  Station . 

5  00 

1  00 

3  00 

12  00 

8  00 

4  00 

9  00 

Westfield  Circuit . 

6  00 

2  25 

1  25 

White  Heath . 

1  10 

3  00 

9  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

Yale . 

2  00 

12  00 

3  00 

Delhi . 

1  00 

2  69 

5  00 

2  00 

1  00 

East  St.  T>oiiis 

Grand  Total . 

136  85 

28  18 

16  08 

134  08 

452  50 

4  00 

242  03 

101  90 

274  30 

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Westfield 

College 

Assessment. 

Westfield 

College 

Trustees’  Exp. 

Annual  Confer¬ 
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Fund. 

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Bible  Cause. 

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For  Evangelist. 

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Purposes. 

No.  Church 

Houses. 

Number 

Parsonages. 

No.  Parsonages 

Built  this  Year. 

Value  of  Church 

House  and 

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6  00 

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622  09 

4 

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10  00 

652  00 

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2  00 

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305  00 

6  00 

5  00 

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18  00 

6  00 

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16  00 

7  00 

1,772  54 

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4,663 

10  00 

4  00 

1,278  20 

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1 ,760 

100  00 

5  00 

11  25 

979  10 

3 

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2,500 

10  00 

7  00 

1  00 

1,042  06 

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35  00 

7  00 

2,194  70 

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20  00 

6  00 

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6  00 

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15  00 

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7  00 

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4  00 

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15  00 

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Avena . 

Annapolis . 

Broadlands . 

Beecher  City . 

Birds . 

Blueford . 

Chesterville . 

Clarksburg . 

Casey  Circuit . 

Casey  Station . 

Danville  Station . 

Danville,  Perrysville  Avenue. . .  . 

Danville  Circuit . 

Fisher . 

Findlay . 

Flora  Circuit . 

Galton . 

Greenup . 

Hillery . 

Island  Grove . 

Johnstown . . . 

Locust  Grove . 

Loogootee . 

Lawrenceville . 

Martinsville . 

Marshall . 

Mt.  Vernon . 

New  Hebron . 

Olney  Circuit . 

Olney  Station . 

Oblong . 

Otterbein . . 

Oakwood . 

Paris . . 

Penfield . 

Parkersburg . 

Potomac . 

Redman . 

Rossville . 

Robinson . 

St.  Francisville . 

Sumner . 

Toledo . 

Verge  nnes . 

Vienna . 

Vermilion . 

West  Salem . 

Westfield  Station . 

Westfield  Circuit . 

White  Heath . 

Yale . 

Delhi . . . 

East  St.  Louis . 

Grand  Total . 


70  00 


500 


100 


135 


1,400 


417 


81 


125 


2,100 

4.928 


700 

650 


212 


1,000 

400 

1,200 

700 


1,700  229 

1,000  . 

1.200  700, 

2,500  . 


1,500 


900 

900 


900 


2,200 

1,800 


3,000 


500 


1,000 

800 

3,500 


1,150 


900 

3,500 


700 

1,300 

1,000 

1,600 

1,500 

1,200 

1,500 

815 

650 


1,300 

250 


1,500 


1,500 

725 


2,450 


2,427 


50,790 


3,060 


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4,125 

4,125 

12 

40 

3,200 

3,200 

12 

30 

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5,625 

5,625' 

12 

50 

3,200 

3,200 

12 

40 

6,400 

6,400 

12 

40 

4,763 

4,763 

12 

50 

3,2311 

12 

35 

3,500 

3,500 

12 

25 

5,340 

4,640 

12 

40 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

50 

. 

11,000 

11,000 

12 

25 

2,175 

1,675 

12 

10 

7,800 

7,800 

12 

25 

5  00 

3,400 

3,400 

12 

50 

3,600 

3,600 

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4,500 

4,400 

12 

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5,900 

5,900 

12 

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3,000 

3,000 

12 

20 

1,465| 

12 

10 

3,000 

3,000; 

12 

20 

2,900 

2,900 

12 

20 

4,200 

12 

45 

5,600 

5,600 

12 

50 

11,000 

9,600 

12 

50 

6,500 

6,500 

12 

40 . 

6,000 

5,500; 

12 

30 

2,236 

8 

25 

8,600 

8,600 

12 

60 

5,300 

5,300: 

12 

50 

8,600 

8,600; 

12 

75 

130  00 

3,300 

3,300 

12 

25 

16  00 

2,000 

2,000 

12 

12 

4,400 

4,400 

12 

30 

13,500 

13,082 

12 

50 

30  65 

2,600 

2,600 

12 

30 

7,000 

7,000 

12 

60 

30  25 

6,000 

6,000 ; 

12 

30 

9,300 

9,300 

12 

40 

67  50 

6,325 

6,325! 

12 

25 

67  15 

6,000 

6,000 

12 

40 

12,600 

12,600 

12 

75 

5,650 

5,650 

12 

60 

8,215 

8,134 

50 

3,610 

3,610 

12 

50 

2,300 

2,300 

8 

20 

5,300 

5,300 

12 

35 

4,250 

4,250 

12 

50 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

40 

92  80 

4,600 

4,600 

12 

30 

4,900 

4,775 

12 

25 

4,825 

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30 

33  00 

3,700 

3,700 

12 

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85  00 

4,530 

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SUMMARY  OF  STATISTICS. 

Organized  churches,  155. 

Itinerants,  70;  local  preachers,  11.  Total,  81. 

Members  at  beginning  of  year,  10,955;  end  of  year,  10,842; 
loss,  91. 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  societies,  54;  members,  1,865;  Junior  C.  E.  societies, 
37 ;  members,  882. 

Sunday  schools,  145;  enrollment,  14,336;  teachers  and  officers, 
1,644;  gain  in  enrollment,  2,402. 

Telescopes  taken,  980  ;  gain,  84. 

Church-houses,  148;  value,  $244,923. 

Parsonages,  37; -value,  $50,790. 

Finances — Pastors’  salaries,  $36,739.24;  Presiding  Elder’s  sal¬ 
ary,  $1,235.95;  Local  Current  Expenses,  $7,388.70;  For  Church 
and  Parsonage  Building,  $16,598.51;  Local  Sunday  School, 
$5,196.88;  Home  Missions,  $1,845.49;  Foreign  Missions,  $1,246.47; 
Woman’s  Missions,  $583.59;  Church  Erection,  $379.62;  Conference 
Church  Erection,  $1,661.18;  Church  Erection  Special,  $134.44; 
Parsonage  Erection,  $12.90;  Sunday-School  General  Fund,  $136.85 ; 
Y.  P.  S.  C.  E.  General  Fund,  $28.18;  Children’s  Day  Collections, 
$134.08;  Bishop’s  Salary,  $452.50;  Preachers’  Aid,  $4.00;  Confer¬ 
ence  Preachers’  Aid,  $242.03;  Beneficiary  Education,  $101.90; 
Bonebrake  Seminary,  $274.30;  Contributions  to  Colleges,  etc., 
$2,256.50;  Westfield  College,  $706.72;  Annual  Conference  Ex¬ 
penses,  $248.85;  Bible  Cause,  $5.00;  Total  for  all  purposes,  $80, 
782.48. 


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NOTES 


Examinations  occurred  on  Tuesday,  August  22. 

Rev.  W.  L.  Duncan,  pastor  of  First  United  Brethren  Church, 
of  Olney,  Illinois,  preached  on  Tuesday  night. 

Dr.  J.  S.  Kendall,  General  Secretary  Christian  Stewardship, 
preached  on  Wednesday  night. 

Dr.  H.  S.  Gabel,  General  Secretary  of  Church  Erection,  preached 
on  Thursday  night. 

On  Friday  night  were  given  several  short  talks  on  Church 
Extension,  and  Bishop  Mathews  then  secured  a  subscription  of 
$1,400  for  our  East  St.  Louis  enterprise. 

Ernest  A.  Scroggin  gave  a  very  acceptable  anti-saloon  address 
on  Saturday  night. 

The  following  named  persons  were  introduced  to  the  Confer¬ 
ence:  Rev.  Mr.  ETarris,  pastor  First  Congregational  Church,  Dan¬ 
ville,  Illinois;  Dr.  J.  A.  Kumler,  President  Walden  University, 
Knoxville,  Tennessee;  Dr.  W.  Aiken,  pastor  First  M.  E.  Church, 
Danville,  Illinois;  Revs.  R.  Wamsbraugh  and  Horace  Reed,  of 
the  M.  E.  Church. 

Admitted  to  advisory  seats  were:  Of  White  River  Conference, 
J.  M.  Tuggle,  P.  F.  Kettring,  G.  L.  Stine,  J.  M.  McHargue,  H.  A. 
McBride,  W.  M.  Givens;  also,  Dr.  J.  S.  Kendall,  Secretary  Chris¬ 
tian  Stewardship;  Dr.  J.  M.  Phillippi,  Editor  Religious  Telescope ; 
Rev.  M.  F.  Hawley,  Miami  Conference;  Rev.  E.  P.  Alexander, 
West  Virginia  Conference;  Rev.  J.  W.  Bobb,  Church  of  God; 
Rev.  B.  N.  Sypolt,  Virginia  Conference;  Rev.  I.  B.  Fisher,  Ten¬ 
nessee  Conference;  Dr.  H.  S.  Gabel,  Church  Erection  Secretary; 
Dr.  C.  Whitney,  Home  Mission  Secretary. 

The  following  named  absentees  sent  letters  to  the  Conference: 
Miss  Elizabeth  Thompson,  W.  O.  Albert  and  wife,  W.  O.  Haycock, 
J.  P.  Watson,  F.  M.  Fink,  J.  W  Nye,  Z.  II.  Byard,  G.  W.  Keller, 
G.  W.  McMahel. 

The  pastors’  reports  were  all  approved  at  different  sittings. 


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[OFFICIAL  TJECOFO.] 


FIRST  DAY. 

The  fifty-fourth  session  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference  met 
August  23,  1911,  at  9:00  a.m.,  in  the  First  United  Brethren 
Church  of  Danville,  Illinois. 

Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews  called  the  Conference  to  order,  and  after 
conducting  devotional  exercises,  gave  a  helpful  and  appreciated 
address  upon  “The  Divine  Life  in  Man.'7 

C.  O.  Myers  was  appointed  to  report  to  the  daily  papers  of  the 
city. 

After  roll  call,  O.  J.  Bogard  was  ordered  to  write  a  letter  of 
sympathy  to  Rev.  1.  S.  Mclver,  who  is  seriously  ill  with  typhoid 
fever,  the  letter  to  be  first  read  to  the  Conference. 

The  first  six  rows  of  seats  in  front  were  made  the  bar  of  the 
Conference. 

The  chairman  announced  the  organization  committees  as  fol¬ 
lows:  Devotions ,  D.  R.  Seneff,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  W.  B.  Bean; 
Candidates  for  the  Ministry ,  W.  L.  Duncan,  E.  E.  Bundy,  W.  C. 
Harbert;  Conference  Relations ,  W.  L.  Perkins,  D.  C.  Ade,  H.  W. 
Broadstone;  Elders'  Orders ,  W.  R.  Muncie,  E.  E.  Bundy,  G.  W. 
Ball;  Memoirs ,  J.  F.  Fowler,  C.  A.  Hall,  O.  J.  Bogard;  Auditing , 
L.  A.  Rider,  R.  S.  Hunt,  J.  M.  England;  Nominations ,  F.  IT. 
Xing,  T.  H.  Decker,  Prof.  W.  E.  Schear;  Boundaries  and  Finance, 
D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Connett,  J.  T.  McCreery,  B.  B.  Phelps,  L.  H. 
Cooley,  J.  C.  Fowler,  E.  M.  Pierson,  T.  D.  Spyker,  J.  B.  Norviel, 
C.  C.  Hodges,  F.  Brinson,  J.  Mason,  M.  O.  Cullison,  R.  Woolford, 
R.  T.  Jeffers,  J.  L.  Allwood,  H.  M.  Curl. 

Presiding  Eldep/s  Report. 

To  the  Bishop  and  Members  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference , 
Greeting : 

In  making  this,  my  fourteenth  annual  report  as  presiding 
elder,  I  may  say,  in  truth,  the  year  just  closing  has  been  by  far 
the  busiest,  most  taxing  year  of  my  life.  Through  the  boundless 


Lower  Wabash-3 


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lovingkindness  of  God  in  granting  me  and  my  family  health,  I 
have  not  missed  an  hour  from  service  because  of  sickness.  I  can¬ 
not  sufficiently  express  my  appreciation  of  the  uniform  kindness 
and  whole-hearted  cooperation  of  both  pastors  and  laity  in  all 
the  work  of  the  year.  In  more  than  nine  thousand  miles  of  travel* 
I  Jiave  not  missed  a  train  nor  an  appointment. 

At  the  close  of  last  year’s  Conference,  four  charges,  Mt.  Vernon, 
Findlay,  Delhi,  and  East  St.  Louis  were  left  to  be  supplied;  and 
two,  Galton  and  Vienna,  were  made  vacant  by  resignations.  Be¬ 
cause  of  the  scarcity  of  available  preachers,  these  vacancies  were 
the  occasion  of  much  extra  care  and  work.  The  quarterly  con¬ 
ference  of  Yale  Circuit  having  refused  to  accept  a  pastor  who- 
would  not  move  into  the  parsonage,  Brother  Broadstone,  assigned 
to  that  charge  by  the  Conference,  was  appointed  to  Delhi,  October 
8,  leaving  Yale  to  be  supplied.  On  October  30,  Rev.  M.  F.  Haw¬ 
ley,  of  Miami  Conference,  was  appointed  to  Galton  charge.  He 
has  served  it  efficiently  to  the  close  of  the  year.  Rev.  F.  P. 
Allender,  of  the  West  Virginia  Conference,  was  appointed  to  Yale 
Circuit,  November  20.  He  has  been  somewhat  hindered  in  his 
work  because  of  sickness  in  his  family.  On  the  twenty-sixth  of 
November,  Rev.  W.  L.  Tyler,  of  the  Southwest  Kansas  Conference* 
was  appointed  to  the  Mt.  Vernon  Station.  This  appointment 
proved  to  be  unfortunate,  resulting  in  a  resignation  June  16* 
whereupon  Brother  L.  H.  Cooley  was  appointed  to  the  charge. 
Needless  to  say,  he  served  it  with  utmost  acceptability.  After 
repeated  efforts  and  failures  to  supply  Vienna  charge,  Rev.  J.  W. 
Bobb,  pastor  of  the  Church  of  God  at  Findlay,  Illinois,  was  ap¬ 
pointed  to  the  work  early  in  J anuary.  He  served  amid  a  good 
deal  of  trial,  faithfully  the  remainder  of  the  year.  On  the  first 
of  February,  1911,  Rev.  B.  N.  Sypolt,  of  the  Virginia  Conference* 
was  appointed  to  the  Findlay  charge.  By  faithful  service  he  has- 
endeared  himself  to  his  people. 

East  St.  Louis,  the  largest  city  in  our  territory,  where,  until 
this  year,  no  effort  was  made  to  plant  our  Church,  is  at  this  time 
worthy  of  special  mention,  as  data  concerning  it  is  likely  to 
have  historic  value.  The  inspiring,  providential  movement  at 
the  close  of  our  Conference  a  year  ago,  that  made  available  $500 
for  the  beginning  of  a  mission  work  there,  served  as  an  incentive 
to  undertake  the  enterprise  as  speedily  as  possible.  On  the  morn¬ 
ing  of  December  13,  1910,  Doctor  Gabel,  General  Church  Erection 
Secretary,  Doctor  Phillippi,  Editor  of  the  Telescope ,  ever  wide 
awake  to  the  extension  of  the  Church  in  general,  and  in  Illinois 
in  particular,  met  Rev.  J.  B.  Connett,  J.  T.  McCreery,  and  myself 
in  East  St.  Louis  for  a  preliminary  canvass  of  the  ground.  The* 
day’s  busy  observation  convinced  all  of  the  propriety  of  making 
a  beginning.  From  lack  of  a  suitable,  available  person  to  place 


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there,  no  beginning  was  made  until  in  May,  at  which  time  Rev. 
J.  T.  MeCreery  entered  upon  the  work.  On  the  earnest  solici¬ 
tation  of  the  trustees  of  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Asso¬ 
ciation,  who  have  this  work  in  hand,  Brother  MeCreery,  from  a 
sense  of  duty,  resigned  his  pleasant  pastorate  at  Paris,  April  R 
and  by  the  middle  of  May,  he  and  family  were  at  home  in  East 
St.  Louis.  A  thorough  canvass  by  Brother  MeCreery,  his  wife,, 
and  daughters,  of  a  large  portion  of  the  residence  district  of  the 
city,  prepared  the  way  for  a  second  call  for  a  meeting  of  those 
having  discretionary  power  in  deciding  on  a  location  for  a  begin¬ 
ning.  On  the  morning  of  July  17,  1911,  Dr.  H.  S.  Gabel,  Dr.  C. 
Whitney,  Home  Missionary  Secretary,  Revs.  J.  B.  Connett,  J.  T. 
MeCreery,  and  myself  met  in  the  home  of  the  pastor.  Rev.  G.  W. 
Bonebrake,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees,  was  not  able, 
because  of  suffering  from  rheumatism,  to  attend  either  meeting. 
Rev.  J.  B.  Fisher  of  St.  Louis,  joined  in  this  latter  meeting,  and 
gave  helpful  assistance.  With  remarkable  unanimity,  we  decided 
on  the  property  to  be  secured  as  a  place  of  beginning.  As  most 
desirable  of  the  properties  obtainable,  we  selected  a  lot  on  the 
corner  of  Illinois  Avenue  and  Thirteenth  Street,  fronting  east 
82  feet,  and  south  126  feet,  and  adjacent  to  this,  on  the  north, 
a  lot  with  a  two-story  residence  on  it,  suitable  for  a  parsonage, 
both  of  which  lots  have  been  purchased  for  $4,500.  The  General 
Secretaries  are  thoroughly  pleased  with  the  outlook  for  us  in  East 
St.  Louis,  and  are  giving  and  will  give  our  enterprise  their  hearty 
financial  support.  With  such  pastoral  equipment  as  we  have  there, 
and  with  the  cooperation  of  the  different  agencies  lending  help  to 
it,  not  least  of  which  is  the  Branch  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.,  we  may  assure 
ourselves  of  certain,  speedy  growth  in  East  St.  Louis. 

The  Paris  congregation  richly  merits  the  gratitude  of  the  Con¬ 
ference  for  an  uncomplaining  submission  to  a  change  of  pastors, 
the  sole  occasion  for  which  was  the  good  of  an  interest,  remote, 
yet  recognized  as  theirs. 

On  May  1,  Rev.  J.  B.  Click,  of  the  East  Pennsylvania  Confer¬ 
ence,  a  student  in  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary,  took  charge 
by  appointment  of  the  Paris  Station.  His  brief  pastorate  there 
has  been  efficient  and  telling. 

The  year  has  been  extraordinary  in  the  tenure  of  pastorates, 
there  having  been  not  a  single  resignation  of  a  pastor  once  settled 
on  a  charge. 

An  effort  was  made  to  secure  fresh,  reliable  data  for  this  report 
by  sending  out  special  blanks  with  return  postage,  with  a  request 
to  have  them  in  my  hands  by  August  14.  Of  the  fifty-four  pas¬ 
tors  in  the  Conference,  forty-nine  responded.  From  these  are 
gleaned  the  following  data,  which  likely  will  not  be  materially 
changed  by  final  reports.  Only  thirteen  pastors  report  both  sal- 


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aries  and  assessments  full.  Eleven  report  assessments  full,  and 
not  salaries;  and  eleven  report  salaries  full,  and  not  assessments. 
In  a  number  of  cases,  both  as  to  salaries  and  assessments,  there 
are  but  small  deficits;  and  the  wonder  is  that  laymen  on  the  one 
hand,  and  pastors  on  the  other,  do  not  put  forth  the  little  effort 
necessary  to  wipe  out  these  small  deficits. 

With  all  the  extra  effort  that  was  made  to  raise  the  standard 
of  circulation  of  the  Telescope  to  the  basis  of  thirty-five  thousand, 
seventeen  pastors  report  losses  in  subscriptions,  two  report  neither 
losses  nor  gains,  and  twenty-eight  report  gains,  some  of  them 
such  splendid  gains  as  to  overcome  all  losses,  and  give  us  a  net 
increase  over  last  year  of  119.  Eleven  pastors  have  reached  the 
1  to  8  standard. 

Though  there  are  reported  1,078  conversions  and  932  accessions, 
there  is  shown  a  loss  of  thirty-nine  members ;  so  that  the  loss  in  the 
revision  of  records  is  nearly  one  thousand.  These  figures  are  so 
startling  and  distressing  that  one  cannot  but  wish  the  final  report 
will  show  them  to  be  untrue.  It  is,  however,  a  fact  that  there 
have  come  to  the  Conference,  from  time  to  time,  from  a  number 
of  charges,  reports  of  memberships,  the  correctness  of  which  could 
not  be  verified  by  incoming  pastors.  Not  willing  to  report  losses 
for  which  they  are  not  responsible,  some  pastors  seem  to  have 
repeated  the  errors  in  their  reports,  until  there  comes  from  the 
laity  an  emphatic,  widespread  protest.  While  in  the  hope  of  reach¬ 
ing  a  basis  of  actual  membership,  a  wise,  just,  charitable  revision 
of  records  has  been  insisted  on,  it  is  to  be  feared  that,  from  lack 
of  disciplinary  enforcement,  careful,  pastoral  oversight  and  loving 
dealing  with  delinquents,  we  may  have  to  go  on  repeating  these 
appalling  losses. 

While  there  are  gratifying  gains  shown  in  the  organizations  of 
the  Church,  especially  in  the  Sunday  schools,  some  of  the  stronger 
charges,  having  largest  membership,  show  a  lack  of  aggressive¬ 
ness,  even  in  Sunday-school  work,  that  is  hard  to  account  for. 
Eighteen  Sunday  schools  report  21  Home  Departments;  28  report 
43  Cradle  Bolls;  24  report  110  organized  classes;  27  report  99 
Adult  classes;  3  report  3  Teachers’  Training  classes;  11  pastors 
report  15  Mission  Study  classes;  29  pastors  report  38  Ladies’  Aid 
societies,  and  an  aggregate  of  $2,470.15  raised. 

We  seem  to  have  fallen  short  of  the  goal  of  $1,200  we  set  for 
ourselves  to  be  raised  for  Foreign  Missions.  Little  wonder,  when 
it  is  discovered  that  11  charges  report  nothing  whatever  for  mis¬ 
sions,  and  14  report  less  than  $25  each  for  both  interests.  Of  the 
$1,123.18  reported  for  Foreign  Missions,  and  $961.25  for  Home 
Missions,  five  charges  report  more  than  half  of  both,  while  the 
remaining  forty-nine  fall  short  on  the  other  half.  A  comparison 
of  facts  brought  out  in  these  reports  fills  one,  now  with  delight, 


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now  with  dismay.  For  illustration:  one  pastor,  working  on  a  sal¬ 
ary  of  less  than  $300  and  parsonage,  reports  21  Telescopes an  in¬ 
crease  of  8,  and  $15  for  Foreign  and  $17  for  Home  Missions,  with 
assessments  nearly,  if  not  quite  full.  On  the  other  hand:  A  pas¬ 
tor  who  succeeded  himself,  whose  salary  is  $600  and  parsonage, 
fully  paid,  reports  $60  short  on  assessments;  a  loss  of  39  members; 
Telescopes •,  last  year,  14;  this  year,  6;  for  Foreign  Missions,  $4; 
for  Home  Missions,  $5.  This  is  simply  a  case  of  a  number  much 
like  it,  and  several  pastors  may  wonder  whether  reference  is  being 
made  to  their  work. 

In  the  matter  of  church  and  parsonage  building  and  improve¬ 
ments,  there  is  satisfaction.  On  February  5,  the  Perrysville  Ave¬ 
nue  Church,  fully  described  heretofore,  was  opened  for  services. 
Miss  Bowman  and  her  people  have  the  satisfaction  of  having 
financed  the  enterprise  so  skillfully  that  no  obligation,  save  a 
$500  loan,  not  due,  remains  unpaid.  The  Lawrenceville  church, 
also  fully  described  in  former  reports,  was  dedicated  in  Decem¬ 
ber.  The  remaining  indebtedness,  not  large,  was  fully  provided 
for  by  good  subscriptions.  Brother  J.  C.  Fowler,  the  pastor,  has 
had  a  splendid  year  of  growth  in  membership  and  perfecting  of 
organization  on  this  charge.  The  old  church  building  and  lot 
at  Mt.  Vernon  were  sold  early  in  the  year,  and  a  lot  and  half -lot 
were  purchased  on  the  corner  of  Casey  and  Seventeenth  streets, 
on  which  has  been  built  a  concrete  foundation,  50  by  88  feet,  as  a 
beginning  for  a  splendid  church  that  should  cost  from  $10,000  to 
$12,000.  One  room  of  the  basement  is  fitted  up  as  a  place,  tempo¬ 
rarily,  for  worship.  This  enterprise  needs,  deserves,  and  must 
have  the  hearty  support  of  the  Conference,  if  it  is  to  succeed. 
The  most  excellent  achievement  of  the  year  in  building  is  the 
erection  of  the  Farmers  Chapel  church,  of  Danville  Circuit,  dedi¬ 
cation  August  13,  built  at  a  cost  of  $4,930.  An  unpaid  balance 
is  fully  provided  for  by  good  subscription.  Brother  Dwyer,  the 
pastor,  and  his  people,  have  done  a  marvelous  work,  and  will  be 
pleased  to  have  the  members  of  the  Conference  to  visit  their  new 
church  home.  The  church  at  Toledo,  though  lately  built,  was  found 
by  the  pastor,  Kev.  F.  IT.  King,  and  his  people  to  be  too  small 
to  accommodate  the  growing  congregation  and  Sunday  school. 
The  east  side  was,  therefore,  torn  out  and  a  two-room  addition 
built,  with  concrete  basement,  costing  $1,600.  The  renewed  church 
was  formally  reopened  August  20.  Brother  J.  F.  Fowler,  as  one 
of  the  results  of  a  sweeping  revival  at  Bluford,  on  Bluford  Cir¬ 
cuit,  induced  his  people  to  elevate  the  old  church,  put  under  it  a 
concrete  block  foundation,  and  build  to  it  an  addition  24  by  28 
feet,  with  a  bell  tower,  into  which  is  being  placed  a  650  pound 
bell.  Cost,  $800.  White  Heath,  D.  C.  Ade,  pastor,  has  repaired 
the  church  there,  including  concrete  basement,  at  a  cost  of  $400. 


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St.  Francisville  paid  a  balance  of  $450  church  debt,  and  improved 
the  church,  including  the  putting  in  of  a  rolling  partition  at  a 
cost  of  $215.  Vermilion  acquired  a  new  $300  piano,  and  repaired 
the  Prairie  Chapel  church,  including  repainting,  at  a  cost  of  $76. 
Westfield  Station  expended  $143  on  chapel  repairs.  Yale  Circuit 
improved  its  properties,  mainly  the  reseating  of  Otterbein  church, 
at  a  cost  of  $490.  Marshall  Station  repaired  its  church  by  put¬ 
ting  in  modern  windows  and  repainting,  at  a  cost  of  $177.50. 
Oblong  built  an  additional  room  to  the  parsonage,  costing  $1,100. 
The  congregation  of  First  Church,  Danville,  newly  decorated  the 
church  at  a  cost  of  $344.  *  The  Flora  congregation  of  Flora  Cir¬ 
cuit,  expended  $500  on  enlarging  and  repairing  their  church. 
Possville  charge  expended  $145  in  church  repairs.  United  Breth¬ 
ren  Chapel,  on  Parkersburg  Circuit,  was  moved  from  Calhoun  to 
a  site  a  mile  in  the  country,  and  repaired  at  a  cost  of  $230.  Union 
"'urch  on  Danville  Circuit  has  been  decorated  at  a  cost  of  $200. 

y  Station  is  in  the  midst  oka  parsonage  building  enterprise. 
The  plans  comprehend  a  splendm  structure  that  will  cost  $2,000. 
Many  minor  improvements  have  been  made  on  churches  and  par¬ 
sonages,  not  reported. 

The  budget  plan  has  been  much  emphasized,  and  a  number  of 
pastors  have  given  it  careful  attention.  Some  have  acted  on  the 
suggestion  to  carefully  lay  the  foundation  at  the  close  of  this 
year  for  its  working  next  year.  Some  hindrances  to  the  working 
of  the  plan  are:  Allowing  one’s  self  to  be  bluffed  by  the  oppo¬ 
sition  of  those  who  do  not  want  to  pay  more  themselves,  nor  go 
to  the  trouble  to  get  others  to  do  so;  making  a  spasmodic,  un¬ 
systematized  effort,  then  calling  it  a  failure — meaning  the  system, 
not  their  effort;  failing  to  steward  thoroughly  those  who  do  not 
pledge  themselves  to  pay.  The  leaven  of  it  is  working,  and  pro¬ 
gressive  pastors  will  speedily  have  it  working  in  their  congrega¬ 
tions. 

APPLICANTS  FOR  LICENSE  TO  PREACH 

The  following  brethren  are  recommended  by  their  respective 
quarterly  conferences  for  membership  in  this  body: 

By  the  Yale  quarterly  conference,  J.  E.  Spencer. 

By  the  Island  Grove  quarterly  conference,  J.  T.  Story. 

By  the  St.  Francisville  quarterly  conference,  Edgar  Sibert. 

With  few,  small  exceptions,  the  assessments  for  presiding  elder’s 
salary  have  been  paid.  Expenses  of  travel,  for  stationery,  and 
postage,  $302.27. 

Pastors  and  their  families  have  enjoyed  gracious  immunity  from 
sickness  and  death.  The  only  death  occurring  in  our  ministerial 
ranks  is  that  of  Eather  B.  G.  Wood.  ITe  lived  to  a  ripe  age.  and 
died  in  peace.  It  is  sad  to  record  that  at  this  time  one  of  our 


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pastors,  Brother  I.  S.  Mclver,  is  prostrate  with  typhoid  fever. 
Let  prayer  be  offered  in  his  behalf. 

With  gratitude  to  God  for  his  goodness  in  all  the  past,  and  with 
hope  and  faith  in  him  for  guidance  and  blessing  for  the  future, 
I  respectfully  submit  this  report.  D.  R.  Seneff. 

The  inactive  list  was  then  corrected  and  names  were  referred 
to  committees  as  follows:  To  the  Committee  on  Conference  Rela¬ 
tions,  E.  L.  Buckner,  he  having  withdrawn  from  the  Church. 
B.  F.  Daugherty,  for  open  transfer.  J.  P.  Watson,  desiring  an 
open  transfer  but  having  left  the  Church.  H.  D.  Bourne,  to  be 
referred  back  to  his  quarterly  conference.  W.  H.  Elliott  and  wife, 
for  transfers  to  Indiana  Conference.  T.  P.  Griffith,  having  with¬ 
drawn  from  the  Church.  E.  R.  Johns,  having  been  absent  so 
long,  for  reference  back  to  quarterly  conference.  G.  W.  McMahel, 
for  reference  back  to  quarterly  conference.  H.  C.  McConaughy, 
for  having  left  the  Church. 

H.  H.  Heberly,  of  the  active  list,  was  referred  to  the  same  com¬ 
mittee  for  transfer  to  the  East  Nebraska  Conference. 

The  name  of  B.  G.  Wood  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Memoirs. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  T.  Walters. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION— FIRST  DAY— 1 :  30  P.M. 

J.  F.  Fowler  conducted  devotions. 

Evangelist's  Report. 

To  the  Annual  Conference  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ , 
Greeting : 

May  God’s  blessing  rest  upon  every  department  of  the  Con¬ 


ference. 

Please  allow  me  to  submit  the  following  report: 

Revivals  held  during  the  past  year .  13 

Sermons  preached  during  the  past  year . 623 

Souls  seeking  God  at  altar . 756 

Souls  professing  to  have  found  Jesus . 712 

Many  of  the  church  members  revived  and  gloriously  blessed, 
which  eternity  will  only  reveal. 

Money  received  for  the  year . $952  62 

Expenses  for  the  year,  railroad  fare.  . . .  : .  55  85 

All  glory  and  praise  due  to  Jesus. 


II.  C.  Lehwald, 
Evangelist-at-Large. 

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T.  Walters  and  H.  W.  Broadstone  were  appointed  to  fill  vacan¬ 
cies  on  the  First  Year’s  Reading  Course  Committee,  H.  H.  Heb- 
erly  and  E.  Boley  being  absent. 

C.  A.  Dwyer  was  excused  from  the  Committee  on  Conference 
Relations,  having  been  appointed  statistical  secretary  in  the  ab¬ 
sence  of  H.  H.  Heberly. 

The  following  report  of  the  Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship 
was  read  and  approved  after  earnest  and  helpful  words  by  Dr.  J.  S. 
Kendall  in  a  round  table  talk. 

Report  of  Christian  Stewardship. 

In  presenting  the  subject  of  Christian  Stewardship,  we  are 
touching  a  most  vital  point  in  the  spiritual  and  temporal  pros¬ 
perity  of  the  most  marvelous,  God-pleasing,  man-serving  institu¬ 
tion  on  earth,  the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  ;  and  there  is  no  prob¬ 
lem  more  vital  to  the  development  of,  and  the  sustaining  of  many 
local  churches  than  its  resources  and  how  to  make  them  available. 

The  impression  seems  to  be  that  the  difficulty  in  sustaining 
the  churches  has  been  that  of  a  faulty  system,  when  the  facts 
are  that  it  is  as  much  in  the  spirit  and  purpose  of  giving  as  well 
as  the  incompleteness  of  the  system.  The  attitude  of  many 
church  members  toward  the  support  of  the  church  is  entirely  non- 
Christian. 

The  work  of  the  kingdom  of  God  and  the  Church  cannot  be 
carried  forward  without  the  development  of  proper  agencies. 
Churches  must  be  built  and  maintained,  missionary  enterprises 
must  be  projected,  workers  trained  and  maintained  in  the  work  to 
which  God  has  called  them.  This  cannot  be  done  without  the 
expenditure  of  money.  Ko  one  will  question  but  that  God  in  his 
infinite  wisdom  could  have  made  different  provisions,  but  he  has 
chosen  to  confer  this  high  honor  of  carrying  forward  his  work 
upon  men.  And  history  proves  that  they  do  not  rise  higher  than 
the  principles  they  gather  from  the  life  of  the  church.  Any  in¬ 
stitution  that  is  of  such  importance  to  the  well  being  of  man  as 
the  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  must  be  maintained;  and  a  proper 
conception  of  its  relationship,  and  value  to  the  social  and  moral 
condition  of  society,  would  place  her  appeals  for  support  on  an  en¬ 
tirely  different  financial  basis;  yet  in  many  places,  it  is  made  to 
appear  before  the  world  as  a  charitable  institution.  The  advance¬ 
ment  of  the  church  in  the  world  is  of  such  vast  importance  to  our 
individual  well  being  that  it  has  a  right,  and  does  lay  claims 
upon  us  beyond  that  of  charity.  It’s  a  business  proposition. 
“Bring  ye  all  the  tithes  into  the  storehouse  that  there  may  be 
meat  in  mine  house.”  Bring  (not  send)  the  tithe. 


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In  promoting  the  principles  of  Christian  Stewardship,  it  is 
important  that  each  pastor  organize  his  church  on  aggressive  lines 
of  systematic  beneficence.  It  may  require  some  time  and  effort 
to  detach  the  average  individual  and  church  from  the  selfishness 
and  indifference  which  has  characterized  the  past.  A  faithful 
presentation  of  the  lofty  principles  of  divine  ownership  and  Chris¬ 
tian  Stewardship  as  is  set  forth  in  the  Word  of  God,  will  create 
an  atmosphere  in  which  methods  can  be  introduced  that  will  cause 
the  quadrupling  of  the  gifts  of  our  people. 

The  sad  wail  is  going  up  from  many  of  our  churches,  “How 
can  we  secure  money  to  support  our  pastor,  to  pay  our  running 
expenses,  and  to  give  to  the  cause  of  missions  and  to  the  benev¬ 
olent  interests  as  they  deserve  ?”  Such  a  condition  need  not 
prevail  and  will  not,  where  the  church  will  adopt  God’s  instituted 
plan  for  the  financing  of  his  work.  Therefore,  be  it 

Piesolved,  1.  That  pastors  and  leaders  everywhere  seek  to  in¬ 
tensify  the  spiritual  life  of  the  Church;  in  the  absence  of  which, 
all  other  efforts  will  give  but  little  relief.  This  end  can  be  ob¬ 
tained  only  by  earnest,  united,  persistent  prayer  for  the  Spirit’s 
awakening. 

2.  That  pastors  and  church  officials  give  careful  thought  and 
study  to  the  system  of  finance  that  is  recommended  by  our  Stew¬ 
ardship  Commission,  which  is  proving  so  helpful  where  used. 

3.  That  we  adopt  the  unified  method  of  providing  for  the  benev¬ 
olences. 

4.  That  each  church  select  a  strong  Benevolent  or  Missionary 
Committee,  who,  with  the  pastor,  will  plan  and  provide  for  the 
benevolent  budget. 

5.  That  we  strongly  commend  the  weekly  system  of  giving  for 
benevolences,  and  that  the  Benevolent  Committee  of  each  church 
provide  for  the  benevolent  budget  by  an  every-member  canvass 
for  an  annual  pledge  on  the  weekly  basis,  to  be  paid  weekly, 
monthly,  or  quarterly. 

6.  That  in  each  church  a  campaign  of  education  be  planned 
along  the  lines  of  both  budgets.  Sermons,  public  addresses,  and 
literature  should  be  freely  used.  “The  Victory  of  Mary  Chris¬ 
topher”  and  “The  Better  Way  in  Church  Finances,”  are  especially 
recommended. 

7.  That  we  emphasize  the  importance  of  training  our  young 
people  to  regular,  intelligent,  liberal  giving,  and  that  we  urge  all 
parents  to  encourage  each  child  to  give  to  the  Church;  and  if  at 
all  possible,  to  have  them  contribute  out  of  money  which  they  have 
earned  or  saved,  and  have  them  make  the  offering  week  by  week. 


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8.  That  everywhere  the  tithe  principle  be  emphasized  as  the 
minimum,  obligation  in  our  giving,  and  that  a  definite  system  of 
stewardship  training  be  urged  along  this  line. 

Humbly  submitted, 

L.  E.  Miller,  Committee. 

Rev.  W.  M.  Givens,  White  River  Conference,  was  admitted  to 
an  advisory  seat,  and  because  of  his  age  and  long  usefulness 
formerly  in  Lower  Wabash  Conference,  the  Bishop  called  him  to 
the  rostrum  as  an  associate  in  the  chairmanship.  A  similar  honor 
was  later  tendered  Rev.  S'.  Mills. 

B.  B.  Phelps  was  granted  leave  of  absence  to  attend  the  funeral 
services  of  his  sister. 

L.  A.  Rider,  lay  delegate,  was  appointed  Conference  treasurer 
pro  tem  until  S.  O.  Stolz  shall  arrive. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  W.  M.  Givens. 


THURSDAY— SECOND  DAY— 8:30  A.M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  J.  B.  Connett. 

The  minutes  of  yesterday  were  approved. 

O.  J.  Bogard  read  the  letter  to  be  sent  I.  S.  Mclver,  as  per 
yesterday’s  order.  In  harmony  with  the  spirit  of  the  order,  S.  Mills 
was  called  upon  by  the  chairman  to  offer  prayer. 

Rev.  I.  B.  Fisher,  of  the  Tennessee  Conference,  was  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations.  To  the  same  com¬ 
mittee  was  referred  B.  N.  Sypolt,  of  Virginia  Conference. 

The  First  Year’s  Reading  Course  Committee  read  the  following 
report,  which  was  approved: 

Report  on  First  Year's  Reading  Course. 

The  class  consists  of  R.  L.  Weber,  G.  W.  Padrick,  Otto  Cum¬ 
mins,  I.  J.  Knapp,  W.  O.  Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  Albert,  and  Miss 
Daisy  Bowman. 

We  find  that  R.  L.  Weber  completed  the  books  in  the  First 
Year,  and  should,  a  year  ago,  have  been  passed  to  Second  Year. 

Miss  Daisy  Bowman  made  98%'  on  “The  Making  of  the  Ser¬ 
mon,”  and  97%  on  “The  History  of  the  United  Brethren  Church.” 
We  recommend  that  Miss  Bowman  pass  on  said  books  and  be 
retained  in  the  First  Year. 

We  recommend  that  W.  O.  Albert  and  Mrs.  Ona  Albert  be 
excused  from  the  First  Year  because  of  being  students  in  Bone- 
brake  Semin  ary. 


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\ 


G.  W.  Padrick  and  I.  J.  Knapp  have  not  reported  to  the  com¬ 
mittee.  We  therefore  recommend  that  they  report  one  year  hence. 

We  recommend  that  Otto  Cummins  be  referred  back  to  his  quar¬ 
terly  conference. 

D.  C.  Ade, 

IT.  W.  Broadstone, 
Thomas  Walters, 

Committee. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  was  read 
and  approved  as  follows: 

Committee  on  Conference  Relations. 

We  recommend  that  B.  F.  Daugherty  receive  an  open  transfer; 
that  J.  P.  Watson  receive  an  honorable  dismissal;  that  H.  H.  Heb- 
erly  receive  a  transfer  to  East  Nebraska  Conference;  that  W.  H. 
Elliott  and  wife  receive  transfers  to  Indiana  Conference. 

E.  L.  Buckner,  T.  P.  Griffith,  and  H.  C.  McConaughv  having 
irregularly  withdrawn  from  the  Church,  we  recommend  that  their 
names  be  stricken  from  the  Conference  roll. 

We  recommend  that  H.  D.  Bourne  and  G.  W.  McMahel  be 
referred  back  to  their  respective  quarterly  conferences;  that  E.  R. 
Johns  be  granted  superannuated  relation;  that  I.  B.  Fisher,  of 
Tennessee  Conference,  be  received  into  this  Conference  on  his 
credentials;  that  B.  N.  Sypolt,  of  Virginia  Conference,  be  re¬ 
ceived  into  this  Conference  subject  to  transfer;  that  Lewis  Fear 
be  received  into  this  Conference  upon  his  credentials  from  the 
Holiness  Christian  Church  and  be  required  to  pursue  the  courses 
of  reading  prescribed  in  our  book  of  Discipline. 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 

D.  C.  Ade, 

W.  L.  Perkins, 

Committee. 

The  interests  of  Bonebrake  Seminary  were  at  this  time  presented. 
Bishop  Mathews  first  gave  a  stirring  address  upon  the  need  of 
more  preachers  and  of  better  prepared  preachers.  Dr.  J.  M.  Phil- 
lippi  then  spoke  upon  the  enlargement  of  the  Seminary. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  Doctor  Gabel. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION— SECOND  DAY— 1:30  P.M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  S.  Mills.  The  Beneficiary  Aid 
Association  then  transacted  its  annual  business  by  1 :  45  p.m.,  when 
the  Conference  resumed  its  business. 


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Rev.  W.  L.  Fear,  of  the  Holiness  Christian  Church,  was  referred 
to  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations. 

The  report  on  Church  Erection  was  read  and  approved,  as 
follows : 


Church  Erection. 

When  Dorcas  was  dead,  her  friends  were  very  much  grieved, 
not  because  she  was  a  great  scholar,  not  because  of  any  literature 
she  had  given  to  the  world,  not  because  of  any  song  she  had  sung, 
not  for  anything  she  had  said,  but  because  of  her  kind  acts  and 
deeds  that  she  had  done. 

Our  Church  Erection  Society  is  not  appreciated  because  of  its 
name,  nor  because  of  the  existence  of  such  society,  but  for  what 
it  does  to  help  struggling  communities  to  a  house  of  worship. 

No  one  can  appreciate  a  friend  more  than  one  that  has  been 
befriended.  The  church  building  in  which  we  are  now  assembled 
was  made  possible  by  the  aid  of  the  Church  Erection  Society.  Last 
fall  a  few  people  in  the  southeast  part  of  this  city  were  handi¬ 
capped  for  work  because  they  had  no  house  in  which  to  meet  and 
hold  services.  An  appeal  was  made  to  the  Church  Erection  Soci¬ 
ety  for  help.  The  help  came,  and  now  there  stands  a  beautiful 
little  church  house,  known  as  the  Perryville  Avenue  Church  of 
Southeast  Danville,  as  a  second  token  in  this  city  of  the  need  and 
helpfulness  of  the  Church  Erection  society. 

Jesus  instituted  the  church  on  earth,  that  through  it  men  might 
be  saved  from  their  sin;  but  we  are  sorry  to  say,  that  in  many 
localities  this  institution  is  ineffective  because  of  no  house  in 
which  to  worship  and  hold  services.  And  this  condition  is  due 
largely  to  the  fact  that  men  will  not  pay  to  God  what  they  owe 
him.  The  devil’s  kingdom  never  lacks  for  time  nor  money  to 
carry  on  its  business  in  the  world,  which  is  to  debauch  manhood 
and  ruin  homes,  etc. 

All  places  of  sin  are  made  just  as  glaring  and  inviting  as 
money  can  make  them,  in  order  that  our  boys  and  girls  will  enter. 
While  we  do  not  believe  in  extravagance  in  church  building,  yet 
we  do  believe  that  God’s  house  should  be  as  attractive  as  these 
places  of  sin.  Therefore,  seeing  the  need  of  more  and  better 
church  buildings, 

Resolved ,  First,  that  we,  as  preachers  and  laymen,  pledge  our 
hearty  support  and  cooperation  to  our  most  efficient  secretary, 
Dr.  H.  S.  Gabel,  in  his  efforts  to  get  the  interest  of  Church  Erec¬ 
tion  before  our  people. 

Second.  That  as  ministers  of  the  Lower  Wabash  Conference, 
we  again  pledge  to  make  a  sincere  effort  to  raise  an  average  of  ten 
cents  per  member  for  Church  Erection  in  the  Easter  offering. 


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Third.  That  we  will  also  seek  to  enlist  our  Ladies'  Aid  Soci¬ 
eties  to  make  contributions  for  the  Parsonage  Fund. 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  Committee. 

To  the  above  report,  Doctor  Gabel,  J.  B.  Connett,  D.  R.  Senetf, 
and  J.  T.  McCreery  made  appropriate  remarks. 

The  Conference  quartet  was  called  for  and  sang  “Lower  Wa¬ 
bash/7  composed  by  J.  B.  Connett. 

In  the  absence  of  I.  S.  Mclver,  Committee  on  Publishing  Inter¬ 
ests,  E.  E.  Bundy  was  instructed  to  prepare  a  short  paper  on  said 
subject.  Doctor  Phillippi  then  spoke  upon  Publishing  Interests. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U.  was  approved, 
as  follows : 


Report  on  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U. 

Within  the  last  few  years,  questions  concerning  the  Young  Peo¬ 
ple’s  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  have  been  thrusting  them¬ 
selves  into  our  minds.  Does  Christian  Endeavor  fill  a  place  wholly 
unoccupied  by  any  other  organization  or  force  in  the  church? 
Is  it  or  is  it  not  an  overlapping  of  newer  organizations,  and  could 
these  forces  take  the  place  of  Christian  Endeavor,  supplying  all 
the  training  and  association  that  the  society  name  brings?  Pas¬ 
tors  especially  have  found  a  difficulty  in  keeping  the  same  young 
people  equally  interested  in  Young  People’s  Society  and  the 
new  Sunday-school  class  work.  Committee  work  and  the  social 
requirments  are  much  alike,  and  we  are  led  to  think  a  single 
organization  would  do  as  well  the  formal  duties  that  are  half¬ 
heartedly  looked  after  by  two  or  three  organizations. 

Thus  in  several  instances  Young  People’s  societies  have  died 
because  of  the  lack  of  an  adequate  mission,  a  heroic  ideal,  a  real 
reason  for  existence. 

To-day  Christian  Endeavor  must  go  into  a  larger  field  than 
she  has  been  filling.  In  our  own  Conference  we  find  one  of  the 
conditions  for  success  has  been  faithfully  used,  the  glory  of  accom¬ 
plishment  in  splendid  work  for  missions;  and  along  with  this  mis¬ 
sionary  information  and  inspiration,  is  growing  a  careful  steward¬ 
ship  that  is  daily  shaming  an  older  generation.  Besides  the  mis¬ 
sionary  enterprise  and  giving,  the  Young  'People’s  society  must 
take  its  place  in  the  church  evangelism;  not  for  a  Lookout  Com¬ 
mittee  to  get  a  new  member  occasionally,  but  that  there  may  be 
personal  workers’  leagues  and  prayer  circles  for  saving.  Since  the 
glory  of  accomplishment  in  missionary  giving  has  been  a  help  and 
given  purpose,  how  much  more  shall  we  bind  our  young  people 
to  the  Church  when  we  have  taught  them  the  glory  of  accomplish¬ 
ment  in  soul-winning. 


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The  last  and  climax  of  an  ideal  for  Christian  Endeavor  is  in 
interesting  and  directing  young  men  and  women  toward  special 
work  for  the  Master  and  his  chosen  fields.  With  these  distinct 
aims  and  purposes  before  us,  we  see  not  the  end  of  Christian 
Endeavor,  but  blazoned  across  the  horizon,  “Behold,  I  set  before 
thee  an  open  door,  and  no  man  can  shut  it.” 

We  congratulate  Lower  Wabash  young  people  on  their  fine  mis¬ 
sionary  spirit,  both  in  the  year  just  closing  and  in  the  large  inter¬ 
est  they  are  taking  in  East  St.  Louis.  Next,  may  we  enlist,  not 
only  money,  but  life,  in  a  larger  evangelism  and  in  the  training 
and  calling  of  ministers,  missionaries,  deaconesses,  and  Chris¬ 
tian  workers  into  lifework  for  the  Master. 

As  ministers  and  leaders  in  our  congregations,  let  us  next  year 
set  before  our  Young  People’s  societies  the  glory  of  accomplish¬ 
ment,  emphasizing  the  end  and  purpose  of  our  existence.  Let  us 
stand  by  our  splendid  corps  of  General  and  Branch  officers  in 
every  undertaking  of  the  year,  and  give  our  young  people  the 
chance  to  take  the  message  of  the  young  Man,  Jesus,  the  Christ, 
to  the  young  men  and  women  of  the  world. 

To  assist  in  accomplishing  these  ends, 

Resolved ,  1.  That  Christian  Endeavor  societies.  Junior  and 
Senior,  be  organized  in  all  the  churches  of  the  Conference. 

2.  That  there  be  increased  numbers  and  activity  in  all  existing 
societies. 

8.  That  there  be  increased  efficiency  in  Christian  Endeavor 
work  in  local  societies  and  in  Branch  activities. 

4.  That  we  observe  Efficiency  Day  this  fall,  and  Anniversary 
Day  next  May,  in  every  society  in  the  Conference. 

5.  That  we  cooperate  with  the  Young  People’s  Department  of 
the  Board  of  Control  in  all  worthy  plans  for  training  our  young 
people  in  Christian  service. 

Sarah  D.  Bowman,  Committee. 

%  ^ 

On  motion,  the  chairman  appointed  the  following  committee 
to  organize  a  Conference  Brotherhood:  W.  Beasly,  J.  T.  Mc- 

Creery,  L.  A.  Bider. 

The  following  reports  were  approved: 

The  Sunday  School. 

Let  us  consider —  . 

1.  The  importance  of  the  Sunday  school  m  our  church  life.  . 

The  Sunday  school  is  a  potent  force  in  our  evangelism.  It  is 
the  right  arm  of  the  church,  and  the  supply  and  recruiting  station. 

Such  wonderful  advancement  has  been  made  in  our  Sunday- 
school  work,  that  what  it  has  been  and  is  accomplishing  in  the 

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different  phases  of  our  church  life  is  amazing.  It  has  a  vital 
connection,  in  this  age,  with  every  department  of  our  church  work. 

The  wide-awake  Christian  sees  the  ever-growing  importance  of 
the  Sunday  school  and  endeavors  to  awaken  a  greater  activity 
in  this  branch  of  Christian  work.  The  Sunday  school  of  1911  is 
no  more  like  that  of  forty  years  ago  than  is  the  reap  hook  and  the 
self-binder,  or  the  old  stage  coach  and  the  automobile,  for  it  has 
gone  forth  with  great  and  rapid  strides,  so  that  in  nothing  has 
progress  been  more  marked. 

The  first  great  advancement  was  the  introduction  of  the  uni¬ 
form  lesson  system,  January  1,  1873.  Almost  immediately  the 
Sunday-school  institute  followed,  being  conducted  by  competent 
instructors,  which  has  greatly  assisted  in  the  equipment  of 
teachers. 

In  the  year  1881  the  Home  Department  was  adopted  by  the 
third  international  convention,  and  about  the  same  time  the  Chris¬ 
tian  Endeavor  Society  came  into  existence,  and  its  material  came 
chiefly  from  the  Sunday  school. 

A  few  years  later  the  Cradle  Doll  Department  appears  as  an¬ 
other  lateral  branch  of  the  school. 

The  year  of  1895  gave  birth  to  the  great  organized  class  move¬ 
ment,  which  is  working  such  great  wonders  to-day  in  the  ingather¬ 
ing  of  men  and  women  into  the  Sunday  school  and  into  the 
church.  This  movement  goes  hand  in  hand  with  the  Layman’s 
Missionary  Organization. 

When  we  consider  the  great  amount  of  work  and  good  accom¬ 
plished  by  the  above  advanced  movements,  we  no  longer  hesitate 
to  give  the  Sunday  school  an  important  place  in  our  church  life, 
for  it  holds  a  large  area  in  the  field  of  our  church  work. 

2.  The  Influence  of  the  Sunday  School. 

Looking  upon  the  Sunday  school  and  its  branches  of  work, 
as  we  do  to-day,  we  can  see  something  of  its  influence  on  all 
departments  of  the  Church. 

It  is  developing  a  missionary  spirit  in  the  young  and  old,  both 
within  and  without  the  school.  In  the  study  of  the  Word,  the 
scholars  grasp  the  great  purpose  of  the  Christ,  seeing  that  it  is 
his  will  that  all  nations  shall  be  discipled.  Thus  we  see  the  Sun¬ 
day  school  is  becoming  more  and  more  interested  in  the  mission¬ 
ary  movements,  and  is  contributing  liberally  to  home  and  foreign 
missions. 

The  Sunday  school  is  also  developing  the  temperance  spirit,  so 
that  the  temperance  reform  we  have  now,  is  due  in  a  large  measure 
to  the  same  source. 

It  is  the  spiritual  supply  house  for  all  Christians  who  will 
rightly  apply  the  truths  to  their  life,  and  serves  as  a  brake  to 


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check  the  downward  course  of  the  non- Christian,  and  in  many 
cases  puts  him  in  the  upward  path. 

The  influence  of  the  Sunday  school  is  seen  to-day  in  many  lines 
of  business:  in  politics,  in  towns,  cities,  States,  legislatures,  United 
States  Congress,  and  in  the  White  House. 

3.  The  Power  of  the  Sunday  School. 

With  all  the  above  forces,  agencies,  and  influences  at  w^ork,  the 
Sunday  school  becomes  a  powerful  agency  for  good.  It  throws  out 
its  life  lines  from  many  angles,  saving  hundreds  and  thousands 
annually,  giving  to  the  Church  the  larger  per  cent,  of  conversions; 
for  it  is  the  forerunner  of  the  revival  and  of  the  ingathering. 

If  we  should  take  away  this  attractive  power,  the  church  would 
largely  loose  its  hold  on  men  and  women. 

Since  the  Sunday  school  is  such  a  potent  force  in  the  church, 
let  us,  as  pastors  and  laity, 

Resolve ,  1.  That  we  will  place  greater  emphasis  upon  this  work. 

2.  That  we  will  strive  to  have  every  department  of  the  school 
thoroughly  organized. 

3.  That  we  endorse  and  urge  the  organization  in  some  form,  of 
the  men  of  every  church  in  the  Conference,  and  the  enrollment  of 
each  organization  as  a  chapter  of  the  general  Otterbein  Brother¬ 
hood. 

4.  That  wTe  endorse  the  Men  and  Religion  Forward  Movement, 
and  pledge  our  cooperation. 

W.  Beasley,  Committee. 

Fourth  Year's  Reading  Course. 

We,  the  Committee  on  Fourth  Year’s  Reading,  report  as  fol¬ 
lows  : 

The  class  is,  T.  H.  Decker,  J.  L.  Pellum,  M.  L.  Watson.  All 
met  the  committee  and  passed  their  tests  as  follows: 

T.  IT.  Decker — Sermon,  85%’;  Pedagogics,  96%;  Apologetics,. 
79%;  Theology,  79-|%;  Ethics,  95%;  General  Average,  89|%. 

J.  L.  Pellum — Sermon,  80%‘;  Pedagogics,  83%;  Christian  Faith, 
90%;  General  Average,  86-|%. 

M.  L.  Watson — Sermon,  90%;  Pedagogics,  90%;  Apologetics, 
66%';  Theology,  89%;  Ethics,  95%;  General  Average,  85%. 

Each  presented  a  written  sermon  of  merit. 

Each  having  completed  the  entire  course,  we  recommend  that 
they  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Elders’  Orders. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

I.  B.  Norviel, 

W.  C.  Harbert, 

W.  R.  Muncie, 

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Second  Year's  Reading  Course. 

We  submit  the  following  report : 

The  class  consists  of  W.  Beasley  and  Miss  Elizabeth  Thompson. 

W.  Beasley  made  the  following  grades :  Exegetical  Studies  in 
the  Pastoral  Epistles,  90%;  Doctrine  of  the  Prophets,  90%';  The 
Preacher,  94% ;  Encyclopedic  Hand  Book,  98% ;  Exegetical 
Studies  in  Galations,  88%';  Church  History,  98%;  Sermon,  93%. 

Having  completed  the  course,  we  recommend  that  he  be  passed 
to  the  Third  Year’s  Reading. 

Miss  Thompson  has  been  taking  work  in  Bonebrake  Seminary. 
She  did  not  appear  before  the  committee. 

We  recommend  that  she  be  retained  in  the  Second  Year. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

Robert  Griffin, 

Committee. 


Publishing  Interests. 

The  religious  press  has  a  very  great  influence  in  the  world  and 
^4t  has  a  very  vital  influence  in  the  church  life.  Our  publishing 
interest  is  unsurpassed  by  any  other  in  the  United  States  and  is 
therefore  of  supreme  importance  to  the  life  of  our  Church. 

The  value  of  the  press  will  not  surpass  the  power  of  the  min¬ 
istry  in  the  spiritual  life  of  the  Church;  but  as  to  the  educational 
interest,  it  stands  with  the  chief  means  of  strength. 

In  the  social  reform  movement  is  involved  the  deepest  and  most 
vital  interest  of  the  whole  society;  but  without  the  religious  press, 
it  would  be  a  complete  failure.  Our  success  in  the  ministry  is 
due  to  a  very  great  extent  to  our  religious  press.  Our  loyalty,  as 
to  the  laity,  to  the  Church  we  love,  will  ever  be  strengthened  by 
the  growing  access-  we  shall  have  from  time  to  time  to  our  Pub¬ 
lishing  House  and  the  literature  furnished  by  the  same. 

Our  growth  as  a  Church  will  ever  depend  on  the  open  channel 
that  connects  us  to  the%  life  which  is  always  pulsating  from  our 
splendid  press.  Therefore,  feeling  that  we,  the  members  of  the 
Church  of  the  United  Brethren  in  Christ,  have  a  publishing  plant 
second  to  none,  and  the  general  manager  with  his  worthy  staff 
leading  us  to  victory, 

Resolved ,  That  we  give  our  worthy  Publishing  Agent  our  most 
hearty  cooperation.  That  we  faithfully  urge  all  our  Sunday 
schools  to  give  their  undivided  patronage  to  our  literature.  That 
our  people  obtain  from  the  House  mission  study  books  and  all 
other  reading  matter  obtainable  from  the  House.  Also  do  our  best 
to  increase  the  circulation  of  the  Telescope ,  Watchword ,  and 
Evangel  to  the-standard  set  by  our  leaders. 

E.  E.  Bitndy,  Committee. 


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Treasurer  Beneficiary  Aid. 
I  submit  the  following’  report  : 


In  treasury  one  y ear  ago . $74  62 

Collected  . 2,101  53 

Total  . $2,176  15 

Paid  out .  1,694  75 

Balance  in  treasury .  $481  40 


There  is  due  from  the  former  Upper  Wabash  Conference  $142.67. 
Rev.  W.  P.  Noble,  Veedersburg,  Indiana,  is  treasurer. 

The  Conference  one  year  ago  requested  me  to  have  the  charter 
of  our  Church  Erection  Society  annulled  and  a  charter  under  the 
laws  of  the  State  secured  for  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building 
Association.  Both  requirements  have  been  met  at  a  cost  of  $10.00. 

The  treasury  of  the  Ministerial  Burial  Association  contains  $38. 

This  is  my  thirty-fourth  report  to  the  Conference.  And  now 
feeling  the  weight  of  years  bearing  down,  and  from  a  sense  of 
duty,  I  herewith  sincerely  request  you  to  relieve  me  from  the 
responsibility  of  this  treasurership. 

And  I  most  sincerely  thank  you  for  your  kind  forbearance  and 
brotherly  treatment  toward  me  during  this  long  period  of  service. 

Humbly  submitted, 

S.  Mills. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  I.  B.  Fisher. 


FRIDAY— THIRD  DAY— 8 :  30  A.M. 

Devotions  were  conducted  by  Rev.  W.  M.  Givens,  of  White 
River  Conference. 

The  minutes  of  yesterday’s  session  were  approved. 

S.  Mills,  J.  B.  Norviel,  and  H.  W.  Broadstone  were  made  a  com¬ 
mittee  to  take  under  advisement  the  Conference  Burial  Associ¬ 
ation  and  report  to  the  Conference  during  this  session. 

Revs.  J.  B.  Connett,  E.  M.  Pierson,  L.  E.  Miller,  and  lay 
delegates  L.  A.  Rider  and  J.  M.  England  were  made  a  committee 
to  consider  the  advisability  of  continuing  the  publication  of  the 
Conference  Bulletin. 

The  following  report  was  adopted: 

Report  of  Committee  on  Candidates. 

The  following  persons  appeared  before  the  Committee  on  Candi¬ 
dates  for  the  Ministry:  J.  E.  Spencer,  J.  E.  Sibert,  and  J.  T. 


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Story.  We  find  them  clear  in  doctrine  and  in  harmony  with  the 
Church.  J.  E.  Sibert  and  J.  T.  Story  are  up  to  the  disciplinary 
requirements  on  education.  We  therefore  recommend  that  they 
be  received  into  the  Conference.  J.  E.  Spencer  is  not  up  to  the 
disciplinary  requirements  of  education,  but  we  recommend  him 
under  the  clause  extraordinary. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

W.  C.  Harbert, 

W.  L.  Duncan, 

E.  E.  Bundy, 

Committee. 

In  the  above  report  the  name  of  J.  E.  Spencer  was  received, 
not  as  per  clause  extraordinary,  because  the  Bishop  showed  that 
no  such  clause  existed,  its  existence  in  the  Discipline  being  an  edi¬ 
torial  error.  The  candidate  was  therefore  received  only  upon  his 
pledge  to  bring  himself  up  to  the  standard  of  education. 

The  following  reports  were  then  adopted: 

The  Home. 

“What  manner  of  child  shall  this  be?”  or,  as  the  Twentieth 
Century  New  Testament  translates  it,  “What  can  this  child  be 
destined  to  become?”  wTas  the  question  asked  about  a  little  babe 
that  was  bora  into  the  world  over  nineteen  hundred  years  ago. 

This  same  question  has  been  asked  in  all  ages,  about  all  sorts 
of  children  by  all  sorts  of  parents. 

The  best  and  worst  of  mankind  have  had  their  times  of  inno¬ 
cence  and  beauty.  They  have  been  loved  and  caressed  by  fond 
parents  who  have  asked  the  same  question  that  was  asked  relative 
to  John  the  Baptist. 

Parents  should  not  only  ask  this  question,  but  proceed  to  answer 
it;  for  parents  are  responsible  in  a  large  measure  for  what  their 
children  become.  Is  there  not  a  very  close  relation  between  the 
consecrated  life  of  John  the  Baptist  and  the  statement  made  by 
St.  Luke  relative  to  Zacharias  and  Elizabeth,  his  parents,  “And 
they  were  both  righteous  before  God,  walking  in  all  the  command¬ 
ments  and  ordinances  of  the  Lord  blameless”? 

We  need  not  be  reminded  of  the  significance  of  a  thoroughly 
Christian  home.  Indeed,  we  believe  that  if  our  holy  Christianity 
is  taught  in  the  home  as  it  should  be  it  will  solve  for  the  most 
part  all  our  problems — national,  industrial,  religious,  social,  and 
domestic. 

Henry  W.  Grady,  the  great  southern  orator,  said  to  a  friend 
when  he  looked  for  the  first  time  upon  the  White  House  at  Wash¬ 
ington,  “That,  sir,  is  the  home  of  my  nation.”  But  a  few  days 

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later  he  was  traveling  through  the  Southland  and  stopped  over 
night  with  a  planter  at  a  plantation.  The  planter  and  his  wife 
were  Christians,  and  in  the  evening  when  they  gathered  the  chil¬ 
dren  about  them  and  read  together  the  Bible  and  prayed,  then 
ML  Grady  said,  “I  was  mistaken  when  I  said  that  that  pile  of 
glistening  white  marble  at  Washington  was  the  home  of  my 
nation;  the  home  of  my  nation  is  where  Jesus  Christ  is  honored, 
where  the  Bible  is  read,  and  where  children  are  taught  to  pray.” 

A  missionary,  who,  after  having  spent  twenty  years  in  the  for¬ 
eign  field,  returned  to  America,  said:  “When  I  left  America 
twenty  years  ago,  nine  out  of  every  ten  of  the  Christian  families 
had  family  prayer,  and  now  nine  out  of  ten  don’t  have.” 

May  it  not  be  that  the  great  tide  of  worldliness  that  is  sweeping 
over  our  country  may  be  due  in  part  to  the  fact  that  we  are 
allowing  our  family  altars  to  go  down? 

If  religion  in  the  family  is  so  important  to  the  Church,  the 
State,  and  the  Nation,  ought  we  not  as  ministers  undertake  to  re¬ 
vive  anew  an  interest  in  the  family  altar? 

With  this  thought  in  view,  I  recommend  to  you  the  “'Family 
Altar  League,”  an  organization  formed  in  the  recent  past  by  some 
of  the  leading  ministers  and  laymen  of  our  country  for  the  pur¬ 
pose  of  reviving  an  interest  in  the  family  altar. 

If  you  will  write  to  the  ’’Family  Altar  League,”  (502  Lakeside 
Building,  Chicago,  Illinois,  you  will  receive  helpful  literature  and 
information  relative  to  the  plans  of  the  organization;  you  will 
also  receive  a  sample  copy  of  The  Family  Altar ,  a  magazine  pub¬ 
lished  by  the  organization,  costing  25c.  a  year. 

Let  us  as  ministers  get  in  line  with  the  league  and  emphasize 
the  family  altar  during  the  coming  year  and  see  the  blessings  that 
will  fall  upon  our  people. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Committee. 

Report  of  the  Committee  on  Bible  Cause. 

More  and  more  are  we  coming  to  see  the  value  of  the  Bible  in 
life.  One  of  the  most  hopeful  signs  in  the  religious  life  of  Amer¬ 
ica  to-day  is  the  gTOwing  interest  in  the  study  of  the  Bible.  In 
no  other  country  of  the  world  has  Bible  study  reached  so  large 
a  percentage  of  the  students  in  universities,  and  been  carried  on 
so  practically  and  successfully  as  in  the  American  colleges.  Two 
great  themes  are  ever  confronting  us  as  Christians.  They  are: 
The  influence  of  the  Bible  on  character,  and  the  relation  of  the 
Bible  to  national  life.  The  Bible  will  ever  be  the  Book  above  all 
others.  It  will  ever  be  the  light  of  the  mind  and  bread  of  the 
soul.  Neither  the  superstitions  of  some  nor  the  irreligious  nega¬ 
tions  of  others  have  been  able  to  do  it  harm.  If  there  is  anything 


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certain  in  the  world,  it  is  that  the  destinies  of  the  Bible  are  linked 
with  the  destinies  of  holiness  in  the  earth. 

We  recognize  that  any  education  without  the  Bible  is  imperfect 
and  that  the  Bible  is  the  greatest  single  intellectual  force  in  the 
life  of  the  modern  world.  The  Bible  is  ever  holding  out  life  and 
hope;  and  as  we  search  the  Scriptures,  thinking  we  will  find  eternal 
life,  we  come  in  possession  of  the  great  truths  which  lead  us  to 
God.  There  is  a  message  for  every  one,  the  blind  are  brought  to 
Christ,  the  poor  have  the  gospel  preached  to  them,  the  dead  are 
made  alive  in  Christ.  It  is  adapted  to  all  and  is  as  unchangeable 
as  the  dominion  of  God.  Study  the  Bible  and  it  becomes  our 
guide,  it  teaches  how  to  live  that  we  may  know  how  to  die.  It  is 
from  its  truths  we  learn  of  mansions  in  the  skies.  It  reveals  God 
in  all  his  tender  mercy;  it  also  tells  of  the  unquenchable  fire  where 
the  worm  dieth  not.  Wherever  it  is  taught  and  its  precepts  obeyed, 
it  has  elevated  people  to  higher  ideals  of  life.  It  is  the  “Power 
of  God  unto  salvation  to  every  one  that  believeth.”  It  is  through 
the  adaptation  of  Bible  truths  that  the  weary  will  find  rest  for 
their  souls;  therefore,  be  it 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we,  as  ministers,  urge  upon  the  people  the 

importance  of  Bible  study  in  the  home  and  all  departments  of 
the  Church. 

2.  That  we  lend  our  influence  to  the  American  Bible  Society 
in  the  work  of  getting  the  Bible  into  the  homes  of  our  people. 

3.  That  we  heartily  endorse  the  efforts  of  the  Gideons  to  place 
the  Bible  in  all  hotels. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

C.  A.  Hall. 

N 

Education. 

Education  includes  everything  learned  through  the  entire  span 
of  life.  By  it  we  gain  mastery  to  perform  each  day’s  duties  and 
also  become  skilled  for  special  professions. 

One  may  have  piety  and  good  sense,  and  yet  not  be  educated. 
As  we  see  it,  cultivation  of  the  highest  type  rests  upon  an  edu¬ 
cation,  and  we  feel  safe  in  saying  that  the  highest  type  of  all  is 
a  Christian  education. 

Education  merely  sharpens  the  edge  of  the  character  and  makes 
it  ready  to  cut  its  way  through  the  hard  places  of  life.  The  school 
like  the  blacksmith,  will  accept  any  dulled  tool  if  it  has  metal 
and  will  put  it  in  shape  for  use;  so  the  school  will  accept  any 
raw-boned,  uncultured  youth,  granted  they  have  but  one  sense, 
namely,  common  sense. 

Common  sense  gives  to  character  its  proper  place  in  education. 
Education  is  the  cry  of  the  age.  There  must  be  all  the  head- 

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preparation  possible ;  but  to  train  the  head  and  not  the  heart 
proves  many  times  a  curse;  it  makes  educated  rascals.  Christian 
education  trains  in  the  arts  and  sciences  so  one  may  comprehend 
the  length  and  breadth  of  the  physical  laws  that  govern  us;  it  also 
gives  us  a  vision  of  the  things  of  God  and  the  Church. 

Big  things  appeal  to  people.  When  John  M.  Bonebrake  gave  his 
thousands  to  the  Seminary  and  it  was  announced,  it  attracted  the 
attention  of  newspaper  men  and  was  heralded  through  the  papers 
to  tens  of  thousands  of  readers  who  had  never  known  or  heard  of 
this  Mecca  of  the  Church,  and  to  all  our  young  people  who  would 
make  full  proof  of  their  ministry.  So  when  there  go  out  from 
our  schools  workers  who  are  trained  in  head,  heart,  and  hands, 
amidst  the  darkness  of  sin,  to  be  one  of  “Ye  are  the  light  of  the 
world,”  to  lead  hundreds  to  the  light  of  life,  do  you  not  see  how 
many  may  see  and  ask  from  whence  comes  this  giant  in  the  work 
of  God?  They  must,  they  will  know;  after  knowing,  they  will 
then  seek  the  place.  Of  course,  resident  United  Brethren  of  Illi¬ 
nois  will  or  should  turn  to  Westfield,  where  they  can  get  the  train¬ 
ing  necessary  to  fill  the  best  places  where  the  cry  is  for  sober, 
thoughtful,  and  honest  service. 

Members  of  the  Conference,  members  of  the  Church,  do  you  not 
know  that  what  we  need  is  knowledge?  You  are  not  stingy,  neither 
do  you  care  to  be  a  part  of  an  institution  that  is  behind  the 
times.  Then  learn,  learn ,  yes  learn  of  the  school  right  here  in 
Illinois.  Learn  what  it  has  done,  know  what  it  can  do,  and  re¬ 
member  that  it  can  do  more  by  your  help,  as  loyal  members  of  the 
Church,  when  your  sons  and  daughters  go  to  school  at  Westfield. 
And  when  they  decide  to  enter  God’s  vineyard  (as  we  hope  they 
will),  as  ministers  or  missionaries,  we  hope  that  not  one  will  stop 
short  of  Bonebrake  Seminary,  where  the  very  best  can  be  had  in 
Bible  training,  under  splendid  spiritual,  godly  instructors. 

Resolutions. 

We  rejoice  in  the  excellent  work  which  has  been  done  by  the 
management  of  the  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary  during  the 
past  year,  and  pledge  our  hearty  sympathy  and  cooperation  in  the 
creation  of  a  greater  Seminary. 

We  commend  the  management  for  its  foresight  in  securing 
ample  and  beautiful  grounds  in  Dayton  View  for  the  relocation 
of  the  institution,  and  record  our  hearty  approval  of  the  relo¬ 
cation.  We  also  record  our  appreciation  of  the  splendid  financial 
success  during  the  past  year,  and  rejoice  in  the  securing  of  large 
additional  funds  for  the  Seminary. 

Believing  that  the  Church  will  never  rise  higher  than  her  min¬ 
istry,  and  recognizing  the  importance  of  Bonebrake  Theological 
Seminary,  our  only  theological  school  for  fitting  men  for  this  great 


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work,  we  pledge  ourselves  as  individuals  and  as  a  Conference  to 
continue  our  support  of  the  action  of  the  General  Conference 
in  directing  a  canvass  of  the  entire  Church  for  funds  that  this 
institution  may  fully  meet  the  demands  of  the  denomination. 

As  a  Conference,  we  heartily  endorse  the  movement  to  secure 
at  least  $200,000  against  the  fortieth  anniversary  of  the  founding 
of  the  Seminary,  which  will  be  celebrated  in  connection  with  our 
next  commencement  exercises,  and  pledge  our  hearty  cooperation 
in  this  work.  We  will  do  all  we  can  on  our  respective  fields  of  labor 
to  encourage  our  people  to  assist  in  this  worthy  enterprise. 

We  would  also  urge  upon  our  people  the  needs  of  Westfield 
and  ask  a  hearty  cooperation,  making  it  more  proficient  by  giving 
of  our  means  to  its  support. 

This  means  for  us  to  see  that  each  of  these  institutions  shall 
become  to  us  a  real  charge  and  we  pledge  that  we  will  see  that 
the  assessments  laid  to  our  charge  shall  be  duly  raised  and  paid 
to  the  treasurer  at  the  earliest  possible  date. 

We  recommend  that,  for  the  purpose  of  encouraging  our  educa¬ 
tional  work  in  our  State,  the  Committee  on  Education  consist  of 
three  members,  who  shall  keep  in  close  touch  with  the  work  of 
Westfield  College,  and  bring  before  this  Conference  at  its  next 
session  recommendations  of  plans  by  which  the  educational  work 
of  our  State  may  be  materially  advanced. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Committee. 

The  above  report  was  enriched  by  a  stirring  address  from  Prof. 
W.  E.  Schear,  dean  of  Westfield  College,  and  also  by  remarks  from 
Bev.  B.  Wamsbraugh,  a  retired  minister,  ninety  years  old,  and 
by  Bishop  Mathews.  The  following  resolution  was  adopted : 

Resolved ,  That  the  address  of  Professor  Schear,  dean  of  West- 
field  College,  inspires  in  us  confidence  in  his  ability  to  lead  us 
in  our  educational  work  in  this  State  of  Illinois.  That  we  will 
renew  our  support  to  Westfield  College.  That  we  will  heartily  co¬ 
operate  in  such  plans  for  carrying  on  the  work  as  he  and  his 
advisers  may  propose  from  time  to  time.  That  the  question  of 
finances  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Finance  which  shall 
report  to  the  Conference  as  soon  as  practicable. 

D.  B.  Seneff. 

J.  B.  CONNETT. 

Committee. 

On  motion  by  S.  Mills,  every  pastor,  one  month  before  the 
opening  of  each  term  of  school  at  Westfield  College,  was  instructed 
to  make  public  announcement  of  such  opening  to  his  congrega¬ 
tion  and  young  people. 


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At  this  point  the  itinerant  list  was  revised  and  T.  H.  Decker 
was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  for  an 
open  transfer,  and  R.  L.  Weber  for  evangelistic  relations. 

The  Committee  on  Boundaries  presented  the  following  report: 

Report  of  Boundary  Committee. 

Your  Committee  on  Boundaries  would  recommend: 

That  the  Bellair  appointment  be  detached  from  Annapolis  Cir¬ 
cuit  and  attached  to  Yale  Circuit. 

That  Centenary  appointment  be  detached  from  Martinsville 
Circuit  and  attached  to  Annapolis  Circuit  and  constitute  Marshall 
Circuit. 

That  Martinsville  he  attached  to  Martinsville  Circuit  and 
constitute  Martinsville  Mission. 

That  Flora  be  detached  from  Flora  Circuit  and  constitute  Flora 
Mission  Station. 

That  the  Hillery  appointment  be  attached  to  Oakwood  Circuit. 

That  the  Dahlgren  appointment  be  attached  to  Bluford  Circuit. 

That  Blue  Mound  he  attached  to  White  Heath  Circuit. 

That  the  name  Delhi  Mission  be  changed  to  Woodlawn  Mission. 

That  there  he  one  presiding  elder  district. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

D.  R.  Seneff,  President, 

T.  D.  Spyker,  Secretary. 

The  above  report  was  adopted,  item  by  item,  except  that  the 
last  item  was  voted  down. 

A  motion  was  then  made  that  there  be  two  presiding  elder 
districts,  and  each  pay  a  salary  of  $1,250.  That  motion  was 
amended  so  as  to  have  three  presiding  elder  districts,  each  paying 
$1,000.  The  amendment  and  amended  motion  prevailed.  On 
first  ballot,  D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Connett,  and  W.  L.  Duncan  were 
elected  presiding  elders. 

The  pastor  of  the  First  Presbyterian  Church,  of  Danville,  Ill¬ 
inois,  offered  their  house  of  worship  for  our  services  Sunday 
morning. 

On  motion  an  expression  of  sincere  thanks  was  tendered  said 
church  for  their  kind  offer,  but  the  Conference  respectfully 
declined. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  President  J.  A.  Kumler. 


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FRIDAY— THIRD  DAY— 1:30  P.M. 

Devotion  was  led  by  F.  IT.  King. 

The  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Because  of  the  inconvenience  of  examining  pastors'  reports, 
and  of  being  deprived  of  much  of  the  benefits  of  the  Conference, 
therefore,  be  it 

Resolved ,  That  all  pastors’  annual  Conference  reports  be  sent 
by  mail  to  the  chairman  of  the  Statistical  Committee  on  Monday 
preceding  the  convening  of  Conference,  to  the  place  where  the 
Conference  is  to  be  held. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

L.  E.  Miller, 

F.  H.  King. 

On  motion,  F.  H.  King,  L.  E.  Miller,  and  C.  O.  Myers  were  re¬ 
elected  Statistical  Committee  for  next  year,  and  L.  E.  Miller  as 
statistical  secretary. 

On  motion,  it  was  decided  that  the  Bishop  of  the  Conference, 
with  the  presiding  elders,  appoint  the  Boundary  and  Finance  Com¬ 
mittee  after  the  election  of  lay  delegates  next  year,  and  publish 
such  appointment  in  the  Religious  Telescope ;  and  that  said 

y 

committee  meet  on  Tuesday  preceding  the  assembling  of  the  next 
Conference. 

Rev.  Horace  Reed,  of  the  M.  E.  Church,  was  introduced  to  the 
Conference,  and  made  some  remarks  on  social  purity. 

On  motion,  the  chairman  appointed  representatives  from  this 
body  to  attend  the  Social  Purity  Convention  that  meets  in  Colum¬ 
bus,  Ohio,  October  23,  1911.  Doctor  Reed  asked  for  such  appoint¬ 
ment.  The  representatives  appointed  are:  J.  B.  Norviel,  R.  Griffin, 
E.  M.  Pierson,  L.  E.  Miller,  and  O.  J.  Bogard. 

The  following  reports  were  approved : 

Report  on  Temperance. 

As  we  are  now  in  Conference  assembled,  the  causes  for  extreme 
anxiety  seem  to  be  increasing.  During  the  year  some  victories 
have  been  won  by  the  liquor  forces. 

The  anti-saloon  laws  in  some  of  the  States  have  been  seriously 
modified.  In  other  States  we  have  maintained  our  position  by  a 
close  margin.  In  few  instances  have  we  made  material  advance¬ 
ment.  And  in  all  cases,  there  are  indications  that  unless  we  suc¬ 
ceed  in  adopting  new  methods,  we  have  little  hope  of  victory  in 
the  near  future. 


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I  would  not  encourage  pessimism,  but  I  would  have  wakefulness 
as  to  the  dangers  of  the  times. 

We  may  well  inquire  the  causes  of  this  condition.  They  may 
be  noted  as  follows: 

1.  The  intense  and  systematic  activity  of  the  traffic  itself. 

2.  The  divided  condition  of  the  temperance  forces  as  to 
methods. 

3.  Lethargy  on  the  part  of  leaders  of  moral  sentiment  and 
opinion. 

4.  The  discouraged  condition  of  many  of  the  temperance  ad¬ 
vocates. 

5.  The  uncertainty  of  party  politics  relegating  this  important 
question  to  the  background. 

In  view  of  this  condition,  we  resolve, 

1.  That  we  will  not  be  disconcerted  by  the  infamous  methods 
adopted  by  the  saloon  forces,  but  that  we  will  give  more  attention 
to  the  study  of  the  situation  and  renew  and  increase  our  efforts  to 
defeat  their  schemes. 

2.  That  we  will  discourage  disaffection  regarding  methods,  with 
any  disposition  to  personal  selfishness  in  the  matter,  and  give  our 
undivided  support  to  all  efforts  tending  toward  the  suppression 
and  destruction  of  the  liquor  traffic. 

3.  That  we  will  continue  in  every  way  possible  to  impress  upon 
the  minds  of  the  people  that  the  traffic  is  a  heinous  sin,  violating 
every  principle  of  moral  and  social  life  and  that  the  responsibility 
is  personal  as  well  as  national. 

4.  That  we  take  courage  from  the  consideration  that  we  are 
right,  that  we  are  upon  God’s  side  of  the  contest,  and  that  our 
cause  must  prevail. 

5.  That  we  deplore  the  corrupt  methods  used  by  the  politicians 
of  our  country  and  welcome  the  disposition  to  investigate  this 
corruption,  with  the  hope  that  the  guilty  may  be  brought  to 
justice,  and  that  the  tearing  up  of  old  party  lines  may  lead  to  a 
condition  in  which  our  legislative  bodies  will  cease  the  mere  play 
of  politics  and  face  the  issues  that  lie  at  the  foundation  of  national 
integrity,  prosperity,  and  hope. 

We  deplore  the  silence  of  the  American  Government  in  mes¬ 
sages  and  otherwise  upon  all  moral  issues,  and  we  look  with  dis¬ 
approval  and  disgust  upon  the  late  announcement  of  an  Inter¬ 
national  Brewers’  Congress,  made  officially  by  Secretary  Knox, 
and  the  acceptance  of  the  honorary  presidency  of  makers’  conclave, 
by  Secretary  Wilson,  and  we  can  but  regard  these  events  as  an 
open  declaration  in  favor  of  the  traffic,  and  an  utter  disregard 
of  the  desires  and  feelings  of  the  best  citizenship  of  our  nation, 
as  well  as  a  disgrace  upon  the  official  dignity  of  our  Government, 
and  we  hereby  give  our  voice  against  such  action  and  resolve 


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that  no  individual  or  party  sanctioning  such  action  shall  hereafter 
receive  our  support. 

T.  D.  Spyker,  Committee. 

Report  of  Treasurer  of  Conference  Church  and  Parsonage 

Building  Fund. 


Receipts. 

Sept.  12,  1910 — Cash  in  hand .  $585  38 

Sept.  12,  1910 — Received  from  Rev.  J.  B.  Norviel .  49  38 

Sept.  14,  1910 — Received  from  Rev.  Mr.  Garman  (N.  Ill. 

Conf.)  .  243  21 

Dec.  22,  1910 — Received  from  Alonzo  Myer  (White 

River  Conf.)  . 16  28 

Feb.  4,  1911 — Received  from  L.  O.  Miller,  Ch.  Treas.  ..  .  100  16 

June  15,  1911 — Received  from  J.  W.  Seneff,  Mt.  Erie 

Fund  (loan) .  209  82 


Total  Cash  Receipts . $1,204  23 

Disbursements. 

Sept.  12,  1910 — To  F.  H.  King,  as  per  Conf.  action .  $20  00 

Oct.  12,  1910 — Expenses  to  Brook .  2  80 

Expense  on  Milford  Church  loan  to  Paris 

on  committee  work .  1  52 

Kov.  21,  1910 — To  Rev.  J.  F.  McCreary,  expense  to  E. 

St.  Louis  .  9  00 

Kov.  21,  1910 — Rev.  Winton  Beasley,  same- .  670 

Dec.  22,  1910 — Rev.  J.  B.  Connett,  E.  St.  Louis .  6  37 

Dec.  22,  1910 — Rev.  J.  F.  McCreery,  E.  St.  Louis .  8  45 

Jan.  2,  1911 — To  White  River  Conf.,  settlement  in  cash.  350  00 
Feb.  16,  1911 — To  Rev.  S.  Mills,  new  charter  and  record¬ 
ing  .  12  00 

Mar.  2,  1911 — To  H.  S.  Reese  (storage  Conf.  tent) .  5  50 

Mar.  15,  1911 — To  Rev.  J.  B.  Connett  (expense  to  com¬ 
mittee  meeting)  .  2  20 

Mar.  15,  1911 — To  Rev.  J.  T.  McCreery,  same .  70 

Mar.  15,  1911 — To  Rev.  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  same .  1  52 

Mar.  18,  1911 — To  S.  R.  Burgess,  paving,  Newman  lot 

assessment  .  39  03 

Mar.  21,  1911 — To  Mt.  Vernon,  church  loan .  361  95 

Mar.  27,  1911 — To  H.  S.  Reese,  drayage,  etc .  2  50 

July  17,  1911 — To  Mt.  Vernon  Church .  138  05 


Total .  $968  29 

Balance  in  Treasury .  235  94 


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Assets * 

Note  and  Mortgage  on  Mt.  Vernon  Church .  $500  00 

Vote  and  Mortgage  on  Lawrenceville  Church .  1,000  00 

Note  and  Mortgage  on  Flora  Church  .  50  00 

Note  and  Mortgage  on  Milford  Church  .  400  00 

Value  of  Newman  church  property .  400  00 

Due  from  Northern  Illinois  Conference  unpaid  claim.  . .  14  47 

Cash  on  hand  .  235  94 


Total  Assets . $2,600  41 

Liabilites. 

To  J.  W.  Seneff,  Mt.  Erie  Fund  Loan .  $209  82 

Net  Assets . $2,390  59 


January  2,  1911.  Returned  note  and  mortgage  of  Terre  Haute 
Third  Church  to  White  River  Conference.  Note  and  mortgage 
as  mentioned  on  page  45,  Item  5. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake,  Treasurer. 

Report  on  Home  Missions. 

The  Christian  forces  of  America,  of  which  we  are  a  part,  are 
facing  the  gigantic  task  of  trying  to  make  and  keep  this  nation 
Christian.  Our  problems  have  a  dark  and  a  bright  side,  both  of 
which  should  be  considered. 

One  sad  reflection  is  that  the  evangelical  Christian  churches  are 
not  keeping  up  with  the  increase  of  population.  Ninety-two  mil¬ 
lion  inhabitants,  and  less  than  twenty-two  million  of  them  hold¬ 
ing  a  nominal  membership  in  the  Protestant  evangelical  churches, 
ought  to  stir  every  heart  and  life  that  is  loyal  to  God,  home,  and 
country. 

After  investigation,  the  secretary  of  the  National  Reform  Asso¬ 
ciation  published  that,  of  the  thirteen  great  evils  of  the  world,  the 
United  States  leads  in  nine  of  them. 

The  unparalleled  and  increasing  invasion  from  more  than  forty 
different  nationalities,  some  of  whom  are  heathen,  others  semi- 
heathen,  is  making  our  problems  more  complicated  every  day.  The 
seventy-five  heathen  temples  in  America  emphasize  the  aggressive¬ 
ness  of  heathenism  on  our  shores. 

The  conservation  of  our  national  resources  is  attracting  our 
statesmen,  but  the  conservation  of  our  denominational  life  ought 
to  concern  the  church  much  more.  The  neglect  of  the  eastern 
churches  of  the  never-ceasing  flow  of  her  members  into  our  vast 
frontier,  who  go  out  to  face  the  unparalleled  spiritual  destitution, 
is  beyond  explanation.  We  suffered  a  loss  last  year  of  thousands 
of  members  by  removals;  they  went  where  we  had  not  established 


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ourselves.  Many  of  these  are  the  well-to-do,  pushing*,  business  men 
who  have  both  means  and  energy.  A  single  instance  will  suffice 
to  illustrate  this :  Six  families  from  one  of  our  churches  near 
Cincinnati,  Ohio,  born  spiritually  into  our  Church,  went  to  a  thriv¬ 
ing  city  on  the  Pacific  coast.  They  called  for  the  church  of  their 
choice;  they  were  neglected  and  disheartened,  and  joined  a  sister 
church.  One  of  the  thirty  composing  that  company  gave  ten  thou¬ 
sand  dollars  towards  the  new  building  of  their  adopted  church. 
These  cases  are  common.  Shall  we  not  obey  God  and  provide  for 
our  own? 

Thank  God,  there  is  a  bright  side  to  the  problem  of  saving 
America.  Public  conscience,  politically  and  socially,  is  being 
awakened  on  moral  questions.  There  never  was  a  time  when  the 
general  public  had  their  attention  called  to  home  mission  prob¬ 
lems  by  the  daily  newspapers,  the  popular  magazines,  and  from  the 
lecture  platform,  as  to-day. 

The  awakening  of  the  laymen  of  the  churches,  and  most  sig¬ 
nificant  is  the  Men  and  Religion  Forward  Movement  that  is*  plan¬ 
ning  an  extensive  campaign  to  enter  ninety  of  the  centers  of  our 
country  for  a  sweeping  revival  of  religion,  to  commence  in  Sep¬ 
tember  of  this  year. 

The  teaching  of  the  condition  of  America  and  of  the  problems  of 
home  missions  through  the  Sunday  school,  is  encouraging.  The 
study  and  reading  of  home  mission  books  are  creating  an  intelli¬ 
gent  enthusiasm  for  the  salvation  of  the  home  land. 

AS  A  CHURCH  AND  CONFERENCE 

We  learn  with  pleasure  that  in  addition  to  over  forty  centers 
entered  the  past  six  years,  the  Society  is  planning  to  make  fifty 
their  goal  this  fall.  Our  mission  fields  at  home  have  increased  in 
membership  over  two  hundred  per  cent.,  and  during  the  same 
period,  twenty-five  thousand  home  mission  books  have  gone  out  to 
bless  and  interest  the  Church.  Therefore, 

Pe solved.  First.  We  appreciate  the  work  done  by  the  Home 
Mission  Board. 

Second.  We  will  make  special  effort  during  the  home  mission 
periods  of  October,  November,  December,  and  also  April,  May,  and 
June,  in  our  Sunday  schools  to  carry  out  the  provisions  of  Gen¬ 
eral  Conference,  to  have  monthly  or  quarterly  exercises  and  offer¬ 
ings  for  home  missions,  and  will  hold  in  mind  and  put  due  em¬ 
phasis  on  the  Sunday  before  or  after  the  national  Thanksgiving 
for  a  great  rally  of  sentiment,  prayers,  and  gifts  for  home  missions. 

Third.  That  as  pastors  and  laymen,  we  will  do  what  we  can  to 
forward  home  mission  study  and  the  reading  of  home  mission 
books  and  literature,  as  recommended  and  furnished  by  this  So¬ 
ciety. 


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Fourth.  That  we  will  cooperate  with  our  Conference  Home 
Missionary  Committee  to  secure  an  every-member  solicitation  and 
gift  for  home  missions,  and  stand  ready  in  any  way  that  it  may 
seem  wise  to  advance  this  cause,  and  will  see  that  this  very  impor¬ 
tant  department  of  our  church  life  shall  receive  a  financial  sup¬ 
port  of  not  less  than  an  average  of  fifty  cents  per  member  from 
our  fields  of  labor. 

Fifth.  While  there  are  fifty  million  of  the  people  of  the  United 
States  that  never  go  to  church,  and  the  larger  share  by  far  of 
these  are  found  among  the  men  of  our  country,  therefore,  we 
pledge  ourselves  to  do  what  we  can  to  forward  the  Men  and 
Eeligion  Movement  that  is  now  on  in  the  United  States. 

Kespectfully  submitted, 

J.  B.  Connett,  Committee. 

Dr.  C.  Whitney,  Home  Mission  Secretary,  then  awakened  thought 
by  a  thrilling  address  on  home  missions. 

Eev.  J.  W.  Bobb  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Conference 
Eelations  for  license  to  preach. 

The  following  reports  were  adopted: 

Burial  Association. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Burial  Association,  recom¬ 
mend  : 

1.  That  it  be  strictly  a  Conference  association  and  confined  to 
Conference  members  and  their  wives;  but  any  member  of  said 
association,  who  may  reside  outside  of  the  Conference,  may  con¬ 
tinue  to  be  a  member  by  keeping  up  the  payment  of  dues. 

2.  That  the  officers  of  the  Beneficiary  Aid  Association  shall  be 
the  officers  of  this  Burial  Association. 

S.  Mills, 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 

J.  B.  Norviel, 

Committee. 


Nominations. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Nominations,  submit  the  following: 

For  Westfield  College  Trustees:  C.  C.  Eose,  J.  E.  Blair,  Boss 
Woolf ord,  J.  M.  England. 

For  Trustees  of  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association — 
G.  W.  Bonebrake,  J.  B.  Norviel,  for  president;  J.  T.  McCreerv, 
C.  A.  Dwyer,  for  secretary  ;  D.  E.  Seneff,  J.  C.  Fowler,  for  treas¬ 
urer. 

Conference  Treasurer:  S.  O.  Stoltz,  J.  B.  Connett. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  S.  Mills. 


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SATURDAY — FOURTH  DAY— 8:30  A.M. 

Instead  of  devotional  services,  Rev.  Horace  Reed  occupied  the 
first  hour  on  the  subject  of  Social  Purity. 

J.  B.  Connett,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  and  W.  L.  Duncan  were  chosen 
Home  Mission  Committee  for  the  coming  year. 

The  following  reports  were  approved: 

Third  Year's  Reading. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Third  Year’s  Reading  Course,  submit 
the  following: 

The  class  consists  of  I.  S.  Mclver,  H.  S.  Reese,  O.  J.  Bogard, 
M.  L.  Watson,  H.  A.  Bogard,  T.  H.  Decker,  and  P.  H.  King. 

The  following  persons  appeared  and  made  the  following  credits  l 

H.  A.  Bogard — Church  History,  90% ;  Theology,  85%  ;  Research, 
Bible  Lands,  80%;  Exodus,  95%';  Hebrews,  85%. 

F.  H.  King — Church  History,  80%;  Psychology,  100%;  Chris¬ 
tian  Pastor,  85%';  Christian  Faith,  75%;  Elem.  Higher  Criticism, 
80%;  Sermon,  75%. 

T.  H.  Decker — Church  History,  85%;  Sermon,  75%'. 

O.  J.  Bogard — Psychology,  90%;  Christian  Faith,  90%  ;  Amosr 
100% ;  Philippians,  100%. 

M.  L.  Watson — Church  History,  75%'. 

We  recommend  that  H.  A.  Bogard,  F.  H.  King,  T.  H.  Decker, 
M.  L.  Watson  be  passed  to  the  Fourth  Year,  having  completed  the 
Third  Year.  That  the  remaining  members  of  the  class  be  retained 
in  the  Third  Year. 

T.  D.  Spyker, 

W.  L.  Duncan, 

N.  E.  Royer, 

Committee. 

Report  on  Memoirs. 

Inasmuch  as  God,  in  allwise  providence,  has  again  broken  our 
ranks  by  a  visitation  of  the  angel  of  death  during  the  past  year, 
in  taking  away  Rev.  B.  G.  Wood,  Bluford,  Illinois,  who  lived  to 
a  ripe  old  age  and  whose  life  was  one  of  service  in  the  Master’s 
cause,  therefore, 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we  hold  in  cherished  memory,  Christian  love, 
and  reverence  him  who  acquainted  himself  with  the  arduous  toil 
of  the  pioneer  minister. 

2.  That  we  express  a  warm  sympathy  for  Rev.  B.  B.  Phelps, 
one  of  our  dear  brethren,  who  so  recently  suffered  the  loss  of  his 
much  loved  and  sympathetic  wife,  being  faithful  to  him  during  a 
life  of  toil  in  the  cause  of  Christ. 


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3.  That  the  memorial  service  be  held  at  2 :  00  p.m.,  to-day,  and 
that  J.  F.  Fowler  and  T.  D.  Spyker  speak  in  honor  of  Brother 
Wood,  and  L.  Byrd,  in  honor  of  Sister  Phelps. 

J.  F.  Fowler, 

C.  A.  Hall, 

O.  J.  Bogard, 

Committee. 

Conference  Relations. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Relations,  submit  the  fol¬ 
lowing  supplementary  report : 

Rev.  J.  W.  Bobb,  having  been  referred  to  us,  and  coming  from 
the  Church  of  God,  we  find  is  below  the  educational  standard  re¬ 
quired  by  our  church  law,  not  having  completed  a  reading  course 
equivalent  to  our  quarterly  conference  course ;  therefore,  we  recom¬ 
mend  that  he  be  not  received  into  the  annual  Conference  until 
he  can  comply  with  the  educational  standard  of  our  Church. 

We  recommend  that  T.  TI.  Decker  be  granted  an  open  transfer. 

We  think  it  unwise  to  grant  R.  L.  Weber  the  relation  of  Con¬ 
ference  evangelist,  but  recommend  that  he  maintain  his  present 
relation. 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 

W.  L.  Perkins, 

D.  C.  Ade, 

Committee. 


Elders'  Orders. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Elders’  Orders,  submit  the  following: 
J.  L.  Pellum,  M.  L.  Watson,  and  T.  H.  Decker  appeared  before 
the  committee.  They  having  completed  the  prescribed  course  of 
reading  and  having  given  evidence  of  being  sound  in  doctrine  and 
in  harmony  with  the  requirements  of  the  Discipline,  we  therefore 
recommend  that  they  be  ordained. 

W.  R.  Muncie, 

E.  E.  Bundy, 

G.  W.  Ball, 

Committee. 


Treasurer's  Report. 
Received  before  Conference. 


On  Contingent  Fund .  $125  00 

On  Conference  Dividend  .  147  25 

On  Church  Extension  .  . .  140  00 

On  Foreign  Missions .  297  90 

On  Home  Missions .  77  44 


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On  Church  Erection  .  151  08 

On  Westfield  College .  30  00 


-  , 

Total  .  $968  67 

Received  at  Conference. 

On  Church  Extension . $1,353  74 

On  Home  Missions .  515  88 

On  Foreign  Missions  .  584  87 

On  Bishop’s  Salary  . 452  50 

On  Beneficiary  Aid .  253  03 

On  Sunday-School  General  Eund .  126  56 

On  Bonebrake  Seminary  .  205  30 

On  Westfield  College  .  544  67 

On  Beneficiary  Education  .  101  90 

On  Contingent  Fund  .  156  20 

On  Parsonage  Erection  .  2  80 

On  Church  Erection  .  80  96 

On  Bible  Cause  .  7  00 

On  Brotherhood  Movement  .  11  23 

On  Woman’s  Missionary  Society .  8  00 

On  Children’s  Hay  Collection . 7  10 


Total  . $4,4H  14 

Received  before  Conference .  968  67 


Total  . $5,380  41 

Disbursements. 

Before  Conference  .  $968  67 

To  J.  C.  Fowler .  1,353  74 

To  W.  R.  Funk,  Agent .  100  00 

To  S.  Mills  .  253  03 

To  W.  Drewell  .  544  67 


Total  . $3,220  11 

Balance  on  hand .  2,160  30 


Total  receipts  and  cash .  5,380  41 


Respectfully  submitted, 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  Conference  Treasurer, 

Report  on  Foreign  Missions. 

Such  an  opportunity  to  win  the  world  to  Christ  as  is  now  before 
the  Church,  has  never  before  been  known.  Experts  at  the  recent 
World  Conference  declared,  “There  may  have  been  times,  when 


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in  some  non- Christian  lands  the  missionary  forces  stood  face  to 
face  with  as  pressing  opportunities  as  those  now  presented  in 
the  same  fields,  but  never  before  has  there  been  such  a  conjunction 
of  opening  doors  in  all  parts  of  the  world  as  at  present.” 

In  view  of  this  situation,  your  Foreign  Missionary  Committee 
would  ask  most  seriously  this  question :  “Have  we,  as  pastors,  and 
have  the  laymen  in  our  churches,  realized  that  to-day  is  Christ’s 
opportunity  to  become  the  world’s  Redeemer  and  King;  that  this 
is  the  time  when  Christ  looks  to  his  church  to  arise  and  obey 
heartily  his  command,  ‘Preach  the  gospel  to  every  creature’  ”  ?  Can 
we  rest  at  ease  with  half  the  world  in  utter  darkness  and  with 
half  the  church  at  home  indifferent  and  unenlisted? 

We  rejoice  to  know  that  the  Christian  churches  everywhere  are 
taking  larger  and  larger  interest  in  giving  the  gospel  to  the  whole 
world.  Where  men  gave  but  a  few  dollars  some  years  ago,  they  are 
now  giving  tens  and  twenty-fives  and  one  hundred  dollars  an¬ 
nually  for  the  evangelization  of  the  world. 

We  thank  God  for  the  great  power  of  our  sixty  foreign  mis¬ 
sionaries  and  the  increased  efficiency  of  the  141  native  workers 
in  our  foreign  fields.  We  are  right  now  in  the  midst  of  the  real 
problems  of  developing  a  strong  native  church.  The  victories 
abroad  are  a  mighty  inspiration  to  the  home  churches. 

It  is  gratifying  to  know  that  while  the  whole  of  Protestant 
Christendom  nearly  doubled  its  communicant  membership  abroad 
the  last  ten  years,  the  United  Brethren  Church  more  than  multi¬ 
plied  by  three  its  communicant  membership  in  our  foreign  fields 
the  last  six  years. 

But  the  need  is  great.  We  have  only  made  a  good  beginning. 
At  the  present  time  ten  more  foreign  missionaries  are  needed. 
Let  prayer  be  offered  to  God  for  these. 

Then  to  meet  the  needs  for  buildings  and  equipment,  in  addition 
to  the  regular  support  of  the  wnrkers,  $86,500  is  now  needed,  ac¬ 
cording  to  the  last  report  of  the  General  Secretary. 

In  view  of  this  extraordinary  situation,  we  earnestly  recommend 
that  our  Conference  fix  $1,500  as  the  least  we  will  aim  to  raise  for 
the  Foreign  Missionary  Society  the  next  twelve  months. 

But  no  congregation  can  get  all  the  money  it  needs  by  aiming 
simply  at  the  money.  We  must  have  our  people  see  Christ  himself 
and  live  as  partners  with  their  risen  Lord  to  give  his  gospel  to 
others.  That  is  the  normal  attitude  for  Christians  everywhere, 
and  we  dare  not  rest  satisfied  as  long  as  there  is  a  single  member 
of  our  local  churches  wTho  is  not  working  with  Christ  to  save  the 
world. 

To  awaken  the  Church  there  must  be  the  missionary  evangel  in 
the  pulpit,  whose  messages  and  prayers  breathe  forth  the  compas¬ 
sionate  spirit  of  Christ  for  a  lost  world.  And  not  only  this,  the 


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Church  must  be'organized  with  a  view  to  studying  the  Word  of 
God  and  the  work  of  God  in  mission  lands.  For  the  coming  year 
the  following  inspiring  books  should  be  read  and  studied  in  every 
congregation:  “India  Awakening,”  “Sunrise  in  the  Sunrise  King¬ 
dom,”  “The  Decisive  Hour  of  Christian  Missions,”  and  for  the 
boys  and  girls  in  the  Sunday  school,  “Under  Marching  Orders,” 
“Servants  of  the  King,”  and  “Uganda’s  White  Man  of  Work.” 

It  is  the  business  of  the  church  as  such,  to  take  up  and  promote 
missions.  Hence,  every  congregation  should  have  a  Missionary 
Committee  composed  of  from  three  to  five  of  its  most  wide-awake 
and  consecrated  members.  Abundant  suggestions  for  the  organ¬ 
ization  and  training  of  a  local  church  will  be  found  in  the  new 
booklet,  “Unified  Missionary  Education,”  prepared  by  an  inter¬ 
denominational  committee  representing  home  and  foreign  missions. 

This  committee,  in  cooperation  with  the  pastor,  should  aim 
to  do  the  following  things :  1.  Seek  to  introduce  missionary  infor¬ 
mation  through  leaflets,  periodicals,  and  mission  study  classes  in 
the  various  departments  of  the  Church  and  in  the  homes.  2.  Plan 
thoroughly,  early  in  the  year,  to  have  every  member  of  the  congre¬ 
gation  canvassed  for  a  weekly  pledge  for  missions  and  all  the 
benevolences  of  the  Church;  or,  if  thought  best,  for  foreign  mis¬ 
sions  separately. 

In  fixing  the  aim  or  goal  of  each  congregation  for  foreign  mis¬ 
sions,  the  many  kinds  of  work  performed  in  our  mission  fields 
should  be  kept  in  mind,  such  as  the  building  of  churches,  schools, 
and  hospitals,  and  the  supporting  of  the  industrial  and  educational 
work  in  addition  to  supporting  foreign  missionaries  and  part  of 
the  native  workers.  Nothing  short  of  reaching  an  average  of 
from  one,  two  dollars  and  fifty  cents,  and  five  dollars  per  member 
will  enable  us  to  evangelize  our  share  of  the  world.  This  simply 
means  an  average  of  but  two  cents,  five  cents,  and  ten  cents  per 
week  for  each  member.  Many  congregations  in  the  United  States 
are  now  averaging  above  five  dollars  per  member. 

In  every  Sunday  school,  by  action  of  the  General  Conference, 
the  months  of  January,  February,  March,  July,  August,  and  Sep¬ 
tember  are  to  be  regarded  as  foreign  missionary  months,  when 
missionary  information  should  be  given  and  an  offering  lifted 
for  the  Foreign  Missionary  Society. 

In  conclusion,  it  is  our  deep  conviction  that  the  greatest  and 
most  pressing  need  of  our  missionary  work  is  intelligent,  earnest, 
believing  prayer  by  all  our  people.  We  therefore  recommend  that 
our  pastors  devote  one  prayer-meeting  a  month  to  definite  mission¬ 
ary  intercession. 

Let  us  enter  the  new  year  vTith  a  purpose  to  pray  as  never  be¬ 
fore  and  to  give  early  in  the  year  and  right  through  the  year  for 
the  evangelization  of  our  share  of  the  world.  S.  O.  Stoltz. 


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I\ev.  J.  Edgar  Knipp,  Educational  Secretary  of  Foreign  Mis- 
.  sions,  spoke  fittingly  to  the  above  report,  and  a  letter  was  read 
from  S.  S.  Hough,  Foreign  Missionary  Secretary. 

W.  M.  A.  Greetings. 

The  Lower  Wabash  Branch  of  the  Woman's  Missionary  Associ¬ 
ation,  extends  greeting  to  the  Conference  assembled.  As  women 
engaged  in  woman’s  part  of  the  work  of  giving  the  gospel  to  the 
whole  world,  we  extend  to  our  Conference  our  hearty  support  in 
prayer,  missionary  information,  and  inspiration  for  the  new  year. 
We  believe  that  the  local  Woman’s  Missionarv  Association  does. 

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as  much  or  more  to  create  missionary  intelligence  and  enthusiasm 
through  the  mothers  and  daughters  of  the  Church  as  any  organ¬ 
ization  or  interest;  and  that  the  women  of  the  home,  working  to 
send  the  gospel  to  the  last  woman  in  the  world,  will  stimulate  a 
larger  interest  in  the  whole  Church  to  send  this  same  gospel  to 
the  last  man.  We  give  you  our  support  in  the  formation  of  the 
local  church.  We  ask  your  prayer  and  cooperation  in  our  under¬ 
takings;  and  we  pledge  our  loyalty,  our  prayers,  our  work  to  you 
for  the  sake  of  the  Lord  you  and  we  serve,  that  the  year  1911-12 
may  be  a  year  of  progress,  peace,  hard  work,  and  unlimited  results 
in  Llis  white  fields. 

Sarah  D.  Bowman, 

for  Mrs.  Broadstone. 

Report  of  Treasurer  of  Church  Extension. 

Danville,  Illinois,  August  26,  1911. 

Your  treasurer  of  Conference  Church  Extension  would  submit 


the  following  report: 

Funds  received  from  all  sources . $2,303  27 

Funds  paid  out .  2,211  50 


Balance  of  .  $91  <  • 

Indebtedness  on  notes  to  Ministerial  Aid  Soc.  .  $277  53 

Leaving  a  total  indebtedness  of . . .  .  $185  <6 

Respectfully  submitted, 


J.  C.  Fowler,  Treasurer. 


Treasurer's  Report  of  St.  Louis  Funds. 


Amount  received  on  subscription  taken  one  year  ago . $360  00 

Paid  out . .  224  65 


Balance . .  $135  35 

Respectfully  submitted, 


J.  C.  Fowler,  Treasurer 


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The  presiding  elders  and  recording  secretary  were  authorized 
to  publish  the  minutes. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  C.  E.  Bigelow,  and  D.  B.  Seneff  were  appointed 
Committee  on  Foreign  Missions  for  the  coming  year. 

C.  A.  Dwyer  and  IT.  A.  Bogard  were  appointed  tellers  to  count 
ballots  for  presiding  elders’  stationing  committee. 

II.  D.  Hudson  and  C.  O.  Myers  were  appointed  tellers  to  count 
the  ballots  for  trustees  of  Westfield  College,  Church  and  Parson¬ 
age  Building  Association,  and  for  Conference  Treasurer. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  E.  M.  Pierson,  C.  A.  Dwyer,  W.  L.  Duncan,  J.  B. 
Norviel  were  reelected  Board  of  Directors,  General  Church  Erec¬ 
tion. 

The  following  report  was  approved: 

Conference  Bulletin. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Bulletin,  recommend  that 
our  Conference  Bulletin  be  continued,  provided  it  be  printed  on 
good  book  paper  and  the  pastors  will  give  it  their  support. 

2.  That  pledges  be  taken  on  the  Conference  floor  for  its  con¬ 
tinuance. 

Bespectfully  submitted, 

J.  B.  CONNETT, 

L.  E.  Miller, 

L.  A.  Eider, 

E.  M.  Pierson, 
el.  M.  England, 

Committee. 

On  motion,  St.  Francisville,  Illinois,  was  chosen  for  the  Confer¬ 
ence’s  place  of  meeting  next  year. 

As  per  election,  C.  C.  Bose  and  J.  M.  England  are  trustees  of 
Westfield  College;  S.  O.  Stoltz  is  Conference  treasurer;  G.  W. 
Bonebrake,  J.  T.  McCreery,  and  J.  C.  Eowler  are  trustees  of  the 
Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association,  being  president, 
secretary,  and  treasurer  in  the  order  named. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  G.  W.  Beid. 

AFTEENOON— EOITBTH  DAY- 1 :  30  P.M. 

Devotion  led  by  E.  M.  Pierson. 

On  motion,  F.  M.  Buckner  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Conference  Belations. 

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Second  Year  Reading — Supplementary. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Second  Year,  submit  the  following  sup¬ 
plementary  report : 

B.  Blackburn  came  before  us  and  was  examined  upon  the  fol¬ 
lowing  subjects  with  accompanying  credits:  United  Brethren 
Church  History,  75;  Extemporaneous  Oratory,  85;  Galatians,  80. 

We  recommend  that  he  pass  upon  the  above  named  books  and 
be  retained  in  the  Second  Year. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

R.  Griffin, 

Committee. 

At  this  time  occurred  the  memorial  services  in  honor  of  Rev. 
B.  G.  Wood  and  the  wife  of  B.  B.  Phelps.  In  honor  of  B.  G. 
Wood,  Rev.  J.  F.  Fowler,  the  pastor  of  Brother  Wood  the  past  year, 
read  the  obituary  that  was  read  at  Brother  Wood's  funeral  service. 
Rev.  T.  D.  Spyker  then  followed  with  a  short,  fitting  address. 

In  honor  of  Sister  Phelps,  Rev.  L.  Byrd  made  suitable  remarks 
and  read  an  obituary. 

For  the  purpose  of  a  better  attendance  upon  these  memorial 
services,  the  following  resolution  was  adopted: 

Resolved ,  That  hereafter  memorial  services,  when  held  in  con¬ 
nection  with  our  Conference  sessions,  be  held  on  Sunday  afternoon. 

#D.  R.  Seneff, 

E.  E.  Bundy, 
Committee. 

The  following  resolution  was  approved,  and  made  a  standing 
resolution : 

Whereas,  There  seems  to  be  no  specific  provision  for  paying 
the  expenses  of  administering  the  affairs  of  our  Board  of  Direc¬ 
tors  of  General  Church  Erection,  and, 

Whereas,  One-half  of  the  Easter  offerings  come  to  the  Con¬ 
ference  through  the  hands  of  this  Society,  likewise  the  funds  ac¬ 
cruing  from  the  sale  of  vacant  properties  sold  by  this  society 
under  the  order  of  the  Conference,  therefore. 

Resolved ,  That  all  moneys  so  accruing  be  turned  into  the  treas¬ 
ury  of  the  Conference  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Associ¬ 
ation;  and  that  all  necessary  expenses  of  administering  the  affairs 
of  the  former  society  be  paid  out  of  the  treasury  of  the  latter. 

D.  R.  Seneff, 

J.  B.  Connett. 


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Rev.  D.  R.  Seneff  having  been  elected  treasurer  of  Church  and 
Parsonage  Building  Association,  resigned  said  office  and  J.  C. 
Fowler  was  elected  instead. 

On  motion,  a  committee  is  to  be  appointed  consisting  of  two 
ministers  and  a  layman,  said  committee  to  cooperate  with  a  like 
committee  to  be  appointed  by  the  Northern  Illinois  Conference, 
provided  said  Conference  agrees  thereto.  These  six,  together  with 
Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews,  as  chairman,  shall  act  as  a  committee  on 
State-wide  cooperation.  This  committee  shall  plan  for  a  State¬ 
wide  convention  in  the  interest  of  our  Church. 

By  agreement,  the  chairman  appointed  D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Con- 
nett,  and  L.  A.  Rider  on  above  named  committee. 

The  following  reports  were  adopted : 

Auditing  Committee. 

We,  the  x\uditing  Committee,  submit  the  following  report : 

We  have  examined  the  books  of  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  treasurer  of 
the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association;  J.  C.  Fowler, 
treasurer  of  Conference  Church  Extension;  S.  O.  Stoltz.  Confer¬ 
ence  treasurer,  and  find  all  correct. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  M.  England, 

R.  S.  Hunt, 

Committee. 


Finance  Committee. 

We  recommend  that  the  Conference  Church  Extension  assess¬ 
ment  be  raised  fifty  per  cent.,  and  that  the  presiding  elders  assist 
in  securing  the  amount  in  the  month  of  November,  next. 

That  a  Conference  treasurer  shall  be  elected  who  shall  be  cus¬ 
todian  of  all  Conference  funds,  including  Home  and  Foreign  Mis¬ 
sion  and  Church  Erection  funds,  to  whom  pastors  shall  send  all 
these  funds.  He  shall  also  administer  the  Conference  Church  Ex¬ 
tension  Fund  under  the  direction  of  the  Conference,  and  is  author¬ 
ized  to  borrow  money  from  the  Beneficiary  Aid  treasurer  in  suf¬ 
ficient  amount  to  pay  our  missionary  pastors  monthly.  In  order 
to  carry  out  the  foregoing  action,  the  Beneficiary  Aid  Society  so 
amended  its  constitution  as  to  enable  its  treasurer  to  loan,  in 
any  amount,  of  its  funds  to  the  treasurer  of  Conference  Church 
Extension  Funds  without  security. 

That  said  treasurer  shall  be  required  to  give  bond  to  the 
amount  of  $2,000  and  receive  a  salary  of  $50  per  year  for  his 
services.  That  the  assessment  for  Westfield  College  remain  as 


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last  year  and  that  the  executive  committee  of  the  college  be  asked 
to  appoint  an  agent  to  assist  in  the  securing  of  funds  for  college 
purposes. 

That  the  trustees  of  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Asso¬ 
ciation  hold  the  East  St.  Louis  funds,  including  all  subscriptions, 
and  administer  the  same  in  the  interest  of  the  East  St.  Louis 
church,  as  their  judgment  indicates. 

i 

We  recommend  the  following  assessments  to  missions : 


Lawrenceville  . $350  00 

Marshall  .  300  00 

Toledo  .  250  00 

Eindlay  .  200  00 

Danville  Mission  Station .  350  00 

Perrysville  Avenue  Missions .  200  00 

Mt.  Vernon  .  500  00 

Elora  Mission  Station .  300  00 

Woodlawn  .  150  00 

Martinsville  .  300  00 


We  recommend  the  following  assessments  for  various  Confer¬ 
ence  benevolences: 


FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Presiding 

Elder. 

Church 

Extension. 

Bishops’ 

.  Salary. 

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<D 

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CQ 

Sunday-School 
Gen.  Fund. 

Bonebrake 

Seminary. 

Westfield 

College. 

Educational 

Beneficiary. 

Contingent 

Fund. 

Gen.  Conf. 
Assessment. 

Danville  District — 

Ashmore  Circuit . 

$52 

$60 

$8 

$5 

$4 

$6 

$18 

$2 

$6 

$  8 

Blue  Mound  Circuit . 

40 

50 

6 

4 

3 

5 

15 

2 

5 

6 

Broadlands  Circuit . 

82 

97 

13 

8 

6 

9 

20 

4 

7 

13 

Chesterville  Station . 

40 

45 

6 

4 

3 

5 

25 

2 

5 

6 

Danville  Station . 

64 

75 

10 

6 

4 

8 

20 

3 

6 

10 

Danville,  Perrysville  Avenue  Mis . 

16 

15 

2 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

2 

Danville  Circuit . 

85 

82 

11 

7 

4 

8 

30 

3 

7 

11 

Findlay  Mission . 

50 

45 

6 

4 

3 

5 

16 

2 

5 

6 

Fisher  Circuit . 

60 

75 

10 

6 

4 

7 

22 

3 

6 

10 

Galton  Circuit . 

50 

52 

7 

5 

3 

5 

12 

2 

4 

7 

Locust  Grove  Station . 

64 

75 

10 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

10 

Oakwood  Circuit . 

70 

80 

11 

8 

4 

8 

30 

3 

6 

11 

Otterbein  Mission . 

16 

15 

2 

1 

1 

1 

3 

1 

2 

2 

Potomac  Circuit . 

76 

90 

12 

8 

5 

9 

18 

3 

7 

12 

Penfield  Circuit . 

60 

67 

9 

6 

4 

6 

15 

2 

6 

9 

Redman  Circuit . 

82 

90 

12 

8 

5 

8 

25 

3 

7 

12 

Rossville  Circuit . 

70 

82 

11 

8 

4 

8 

30 

3 

6 

11 

White  Heath  Circuit . 

40 

67 

9 

6 

4 

7 

18 

9! 

6 

9 

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FIELD  OF  LABOR. 

Presiding 

Elder. 

Church 

Extension. 

Bishops’ 

Salary. 

Beneficiary  Aid. 

Sunday-School 

Gen.  Fund. 

Bonebrake 

Seminary. 

Westfield 

College. 

Educational 

Beneficiary. 

Contingent 

Fund. 

Gen.  Conf. 

Assessment. 

Gluey  District 

Birds  Circuit . 

60 

67 

9 

6 

4 

7 

20 

4 

6 

9 

Bluford  Circuit . 

70 

82 

11 

8 

5 

7 

35 

2 

7 

11 

East  St.  Louis  Mission . 

20 

20 

2 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

2 

Flora  Circuit . 

55 

60 

7 

5 

3 

5 

18 

2 

4. 

7 

Flora  Mission  Station . 

25 

30 

5 

3 

2 

3 

12 

1 

3 

5 

Lawrenceville  Mission . 

45 

45 

6 

4 

3 

5 

15 

2 

5 

6 

Alt.  Vernon  Alission  Station . i 

38 

45 

4 

6 

3 

5 

12 

2 

5 

4 

New  Hebron  Circuit . 

76 

90 

12 

8 

5 

8 

35 

3 

7 

12 

Oblong  Station . 

50 

60 

8 

5 

4 

6 

25 

2 

6 

8 

Olney  Station . 

70 

75 

10 

7 

4 

8 

32 

3 

6 

10 

Olney  Circuit . 

76 

90 

12 

8 

5 

8 

24 

3 

7 

12 

Parkersburg  Circuit . 

80 

90 

13 

9 

5 

9 

22 

4 

7 

13 

Robinson  Station . 

65 

72 

10 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

10 

Sumner  Circuit . 

80 

90 

13 

8 

5 

8 

35 

4 

7 

13 

St.  Francisville  Circuit . 

78 

90 

13 

9 

6 

9 

42 

4 

8 

13 

Vienna  Circuit . 

35 

45 

6 

4 

3 

5 

20 

9 

5 

6 

Vergennes  Circuit . 

60 

60 

8 

5 

4 

6 

24 

2 

6 

8 

West  Salem  Circuit . 

70 

82 

11 

7 

5 

8 

37 

3 

7 

11 

Woodlawn  Alission . 

40 

40 

5 

3 

2 

5 

10 

2 

3 

o 

Westfield  District — 

Avena  Circuit . 

42 

51 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

o 

7 

Beecher  City  Circuit . 

42 

51 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

7 

Casey  Station . 

70 

90 

12 

8 

5 

9 

25 

3 

7 

12 

Casev  Circuit . 

76 

82 

11 

7 

4 

9 

20 

3 

6 

11 

Clarksburg  Circuit . 

48 

57 

8 

5 

O 

O 

6 

15 

2_ 

5 

8 

Greenup  Circuit . 

36 

45 

6 

4 

3 

5 

8 

2 

5 

6 

Island  Grove  Circuit . 

42 

51 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

7 

Johnstown  Circuit . 

36 

40 

6 

4 

2 

5 

8 

1 

4 

6 

Loogootee  Circuit . 

64 

75 

10 

7 

4 

7 

18 

3 

6 

10 

XIartinsville  Mission . 

50 

55 

7 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

7 

Alarshall  Station . 

34 

38 

5 

3 

2 

5 

10 

1 

4 

5 

Alarshall  Circuit . 

70 

80 

10 

7 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

10 

Paris  Station . 

70 

75 

10 

7 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

10 

Toledo  Mission . 

60 

72 

10 

6 

4 

7 

15 

3 

6 

10 

Vermilion  Circuit . 

62 

67 

9 

6 

4 

7 

15 

2 

6 

9 

Westfield .  Station . 

82 

90 

12 

8 

5 

9 

35 

4 

7 

12 

Westfield  Circuit . 

60 

80 

8 

5 

3 

6 

35 

9 

5 

8 

Yale  Circuit . 

80 

90 

12 

8 

5 

9 

30 

3 

7 

12 

D.  B.  Sexeff,  President. 
T.  D.  Spyker,  Secretary. 


On  motion,  an  offering  was  ordered  taken  to-morrow  morning 
after  service  to  defray  any  deficiencies  in  Conference  expenses. 

The  following  supplementary  report  to  the  Boundary  Com¬ 
mittee’s  report  was  adopted: 

That  Union  appointment  be  detached  from  Oakwood  Circuit, 
and  with  Blue  Mound  appointment  constitute  Blue  Mound  Cir¬ 
cuit;  that  Otterbein  appointment  constitute  a  mission  without 
appropriation. 


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On  motion,  this  Conference  authorized  onr  Ministerial  Insti¬ 
tute  to  organize  a  Conference  Brotherhood. 

By  motion,  the  presiding  elders  are  authorized  to  fix  the  time 
and  arrange  a  program  for  our  next  Ministerial  Institute. 

B.  B.  Phelps  and  C.  A.  Dwyer,  of  Danville  District,  F.  H.  King 
and  E.  M.  Pierson,  of  Westfield  District,  and  L.  E.  Miller  and 
S.  O.  Stoltz,  of  Olney  District,  were  elected  to  station  the  presiding 
elders. 

By  motion,  final  adjournment  was  fixed  to  occur  after  to-mor¬ 
row  night’s  service. 

The  presiding  elders  were  made  a  committee  to  publish  the 

Conference  Bulletin. 

By  motion,  the  trustees  of  the  Church  and  Parsonage  Building 
Association  were  made  custodians  of  the  Conference  tent. 

By  motion,  the  licentiates  are  required  to  pass  examination  on 
as  many  books  as  possible  at  the  Ministerial  Institute. 

By  motion,  the  chairman  of  each  reading  committee,  within  one 
month  after  the  adjournment  of  Conference,  shall  notify  the 
members  of  his  class  to  what  members  of  the  committee  applica¬ 
tion  must  be  made  for  questions  on  books  for  examination. 

W.  Beasley  and  B.  C.  Peters  were  admitted  to  the  itineracy. 

The  statistical  secretary  read  his  report.  Some  discrepencies 
in  the  column  of  benevolences  of  said  report  led  to  the  following 
motion:  That  hereafter  the  pastors’  reports  must  be  approved  by 
the  Conference  treasurer  in  the  case  of  benevolences. 

By  motion,  the  Conference  treasurer  is  authorized  to  send  to 
the  pastors,  appropriately  printed  blanks  containing  the  items  of 
benevolences.  These  blanks,  when  filled  and  presented  to  the  treas¬ 
urer,  must  correspond  to  the  amount,  item  by  item,  of  the  benev¬ 
olences  paid  to  the  treasurer  during  the  year.  Said  printing  is  to 
be  paid  out  of  funds  in  the  treasury. 

The  following  reports  were  adopted : 

Be  port  of  Conference  Trustees. 

By  the  action  of  the  last  annual  Conference,  we  took  steps 
toward  the  sale  of  the  church  located  at  Sydney,  Illinois.  A 
stipulation  was  made  for  the  sum  of  $500;  but  on  examination 
there  seemed  to  be  a  defect  in  title  and  our  right  to  execute  a 
deed  was  also  questioned.  Before  we  could  properly  adjust  mat- 


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ters,  the  time  expired  in  which  sale  was  to  be  made;  and  as  parties 
refused  to  extend  the  time,  we  were  unable  to  sell  the  property. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

H.  H.  Heberly, 

L.  E.  Miller, 
Committee. 

Conference  Relations. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Relations,  submit  another 
supplementary  report,  as  follows: 

1.  That  F.  M.  Buckner  receive  an  open  transfer. 

2.  That  B.  B.  Phelps  be  granted  the  relation  of  Conference 
Evangelist. 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 

W.  L.  Perkins, 

D.  C.  Ade, 

Committee. 

The  following  resolution  was  approved : 

Resolved,  That  we  hereby  authorize  the  Branch  Board  of  Direc¬ 
tors  of  the  Church  Erection  Society  of  our  Conference  to  take 
such  legal  steps  as  they  may  find  necessary  to  make  proper,  final 
disposition,  by  sale  or  otherwise,  of  our  church  and  parsonage 
properties,  located  in  the  city  of  Metropolis,  Illinois. 

D.  R.  Seneff, 

E.  M.  Pierson. 

Committee  on  Resolutions. 

We  stand  in  awe  and  holy  reverence  at  the  magnitude  of  God’s 
mercy  and  love  toward  us  in  that  he  has  sent  the  Holy  Spirit  to 
lead  us  out  of  darkness  into  the  marvelous  light  of  the  gospel  of 
his  only  begotten  Son,  Jesus  Christ,  our  Lord;  for  the  noble  work 
to  which  he  has  called  us,  and  the  blessed  fellowship  he  has  given 
us  with  his  people.  Therefore, 

Resolved ,  1.  That,  as  ministers,  we  exalt  the  office  to  which  he 
has  called  us  by  “Taking  heed  to  ourselves  and  to  all  the  flock 
over  which  the  Holy  Spirit  hath  made  us  overseers;  to  feed  the 
church  of  God,  which  he  has  purchased  with  his  own  blood.” 

2.  That  we  encourage  the  hearty  cooperation  of  the  laity  by 
a  godly  life  in  earnestly  assisting  to  plan  and  work  for  the  greater 
kingdom  of  God  on  earth  in  the  salvation  of  men. 

3.  That  the  home  is  the  first,  and  we  believe,  the  greatest  insti¬ 
tution  in  the  plan  of  God  to  correct  all  evil  tendencies,  and  to 
guide  the  young  life  in  the  ways  of  truth  and  right.  Therefore, 


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we  encourage  all  parents  to  wisely  use  their  God-given  opportunity 
and  privilege  to  train  their  children  in  obedience  to  God’s  law 
of  right  and  love  toward  him  and  one  another. 

4.  Hext  to  the  home  in  importance  is  the  Sabbath  school  for 
instruction  in  the  Bible  and  the  spiritual  training  of  the  young 
life.  We  therefore  pledge  our  cooperation  with  the  officers,  teach¬ 
ers,  and  workers  of  the  Sunday  school  in  bringing  all  our  people 
under  its  instruction;  and  as  far  as  possible,  urge  them  to  remain 
for  the  preaching  service. 

5.  We  believe  that  the  observance  of  the  Sabbath  day  is  of 
vital  importance  to  the  life  of  the  church.  But  in  view  of  the 
tendency  to  Sabbath  desecration,  we  insist  that  in  the  spirit  of 
Christ,  we,  as  ministers  and  laity,  persistently  hold  to  the  stan¬ 
dard  as  given  in  God’s  Word  for  keeping  the  Sabbath  day. 

6.  In  this  age  of  intense  effort  in  money  getting  and  pleasure 
seeking,  we  feel  the  importance  of  calling  men’s  attention  to  the 
sacredness  of  life  and  its  duties ;  and  instruct  all  to  consecrate  their 
lives,  time,  and  money  to  God,  to  the  end  that  his  kingdom  be 
strengthened  and  real,  definite  worship  be  renewed  and  maintained 
about  the  home  altars,  in  the  mid-week  prayer  meeting,  and  the 
Sunday  services. 

7.  Intemperance  lays  a  foundation  for  all  moral  evils  that 
annoy  human  society.  It  leads  men  to  break  every  commandment 
in  the  decalogue  and  to  violate  every  principle  of  the  gospel.  It 
destroys  all  natural  affection  and  annihilates  all  human  sympathy. 
It  lays  the  noble  workmanship  of  God  below  the  meanest  brute 
and  converts  the  highest  elements  of  his  nature  into  the  likeness 
of  the  blackest  demon  of  the  bottomless  pit.  But  temperance  is 
so  closely  related  to  Christian  work  that  no  Christian  worker  can 
afford  to  be  ignorant  of  her  best  plans  of  success.  Let  the  saloon 
once  take  its  departure  from  American  soil,  then  there  will  be 
a  great  destruction  of  the  separating  forces  of  our  varied  popula¬ 
tion;  such  an  appreciation  by  the  unevangelized  of  the  beauty  and 
force  of  Christianity;  such  a  flowing  of  the  multitude  into  the 
Christian  churches,  that  the  treasury  of  every  church  will  be  over¬ 
strained  to  provide  even  temporary  places  of  worship  for  the  mil¬ 
lions  who  are  controlled  and  absorbed  by  a  new  affection.  We 
therefore  pledge  ourselves  as  ministers  that  we  will  not  only 
be  positive  forces  against  the  saloon,  but  that  we  shall  he  forces 
intensely  active  in  the  interest  of  temperance,  using  our  balloting 
power  as  well  as  our  preaching  ability  and  our  influences  morally 
and  socially  in  her  every  struggle  for  success. 

8.  In  this  day  of  urgent  and  pressing  need  for  more  men  in 
the  ministry  and  missionary  work  of  the  gospel  of  the  dear  Son 
of  God,  let  us  as  ministers  and  laymen  keep  a  vigilant  watch  for 
men  and  women  upon*  whom  God  has  laid  his  hand  for  special 


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work.  And  lovingly  and  prayerfully  lead  them  to  a  full  and  com¬ 
plete  acceptance  of  God’s  will  for  service.  Let  us  encourage,  as 
far  as  possible,  all  young  men  now  in  the  ministry  and  all  who  may 
come  to  us  to  avail  themselves  of  the  opportunities  our  schools 
afford,  that  they  reach  the  best  equipment  in  their  power  for  their 
noble  calling. 

9.  That  we  thank  our  beloved  and  worthy  Bishop  Mathews  for 
the  wise  council,  impartial  treatment,  and  very  helpful  instruction 
given  from  first  to  last  in  this  session  of  Conference,  and  pray 
God’s  richest  blessing  to  attend  all  of  his  labors  for  the  Church. 

10.  That,  in  behalf  of  Bev.  J.  T.  McCreerv  and  the  people  of 
East  St.  Louis,  we  thank  the  people  of  Danville,  the  ministers  and 
laymen  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference,  for  the  magnificent  gift  of 
$1,400  to  our  mission  at  East  St.  Louis,  and  pray  God’s  blessing 
on  each  giver. 

11.  That  we  thank  the  ladies  of  the  church  under  the  auspices 
of  the  Ladies’  Aid  Society,  for  the  feasts  and  blessed  fellowship 
we  have  enjoyed  at  their  table. 

12.  That  we  thank  Bev.  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  the  members  of  the 
United  Brethren  Church,  and  the  good  people  of  Danville,  for  the 
very  helpful  and  happy  privilege  of  coming  to  their  beautiful 
city;  and  best  of  all,  for  entering  their  homes  and  churches  and 
the  kind  entertainment  they  have  given  us. 

13.  That  we  thank  Brother  Everett  E.  Johnson,  field  worker  of 
the  Illinois  Sunday-School  Association,  and  his  committee,  for 
their  efficient  work  and  impartial  treatment  in  providing  homes 
and  entertainment  for  the  members  and  visitors  of  this  Confer¬ 
ence.  May  God  richly  bless  them. 

14.  That  we  thank  Mrs.  Paul  Blakney,  daughter  of  Bev.  D.  B. 
Seneff,  D.D.,  the  Conference  Quartet,  and  Bev.  W.  L.  Perkins,  for 
the  inspiring  and  helpful  service  they  so  beautifully  rendered  in 
song.  That  we  express  our  thanks  and  highest  appreciation  to 
Bevs.  J.  B.  Connett,  E.  M.  Pierson,  and  W.  L.  Perkins,  as  authors 
of  the  songs  that  so  inspired  our  hearts,  and  that  they  be  encour¬ 
aged  to  continue  to  use  the  talent  with  which  God  has  so  richly 
endowed  them. 

E.  E.  Bundy,  Committee. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  T.  Walters. 


The  Sunday  services  consisted  of  a  most  excellent  sermon  by 
Bishop  Mathews,  ordination  services,  and  reading  of  Stationing 
Committee’s  report  in  the  forenoon. 

In  the  afternoon,  the  interests  of  the  Sunday-school  work  were 
discussed. 


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Rev.  J.  T.  McCreery  preached  at  night. 

Thus  ended  one  of  our  best  annual  conferences. 

Stationing  Committee's  Report. 

Danville  District. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Presiding  Elder. 

Ashmore — Curtis  Williams. 

Blue  Mound — Arthur  Belden. 

Broadlands — C.  A.  Hall. 

Chesterville — E.  E.  Bundy. 

Danville,  First — G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

Danville,  Perrsyville  Avenue — S.  D.  Bowman. 
Danville  Circuit — C.  A.  Dwyer. 

Findlay — B.  H.  Sypolt. 

Fisher — Rebecca  J.  Hash. 

Galt  on — E.  F.  Hawley. 

Locust  Grove — J.  E.  Fowler. 

Oakwood — M.  L.  Watson. 

Otterbein — To  be  supplied. 

Potomac — T.  D.  Spyker. 

Penfield — C.  O.  Myers. 

Redmon — X.  E.  Royer. 

Rossville — To  be  supplied. 

White  Heath — D.  C.  Ade. 

Olney  District. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Presiding  Elder. 

Birds — H.  W.  Broadstone. 

Blueford — J.  H.  Easton. 

East  St.  Louis — J.  T.  McCreery. 

Flora — I.  S.  Mclver. 

Flora  Circuit — T.  H.  Decker. 

Lawrenceville — J.  C.  Fowler. 

ML  Vernon — L.  H.  Cooley. 

Hew  Hebron — S.  O.  Stoltz. 

Oblong — J.  L.  Pellum. 

Olney — R.  Griffin. 

Olney  Circuit — W.  R.  Muncie. 

Parkersburg — C.  H.  Gladwell. 

Robinson — J.  B.  Horviel. 

Sumner — H.  D.  Hudson. 

St.  Francisville — O.  J.  Bogard. 

Vienna — *1.  W.  Bobb. 

Vergennes — G.  W.  Ball. 

West  Salem — W.  C.  Harbert. 

Woodlawn — I.  B.  Fisher. 

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Westfield  District. 

L>.  R.  Seneff,  Presiding*  Elder. 

Avena — O.  E.  Hogue. 

Beecher  City — Edgar  Sibert. 

Casey — C.  S.  Parker. 

Casey  Circuit — H.  S.  Reese. 

Clarksburg — Lewis  Eear. 

Greenup — J.  T.  Story. 

Island  Grove — J.  E.  Spencer. 

Johnstown — L.  C.  Maple. 

Loogootee — G.  W.  Reid. 

Martinsville — H.  A.  Bogard. 

Marshall — E.  M.  Pierson. 

Marshall  Circuit — W.  M.  McComas. 

Paris — F.  H.  King. 

Toledo— L.  E.  Miller. 

Vermilion — W.  Beasley. 

Westfield — J.  G.  Breden. 

Westfield  Circuit — G.  W.  Padrick. 

Yale — B.  C.  Peters. 

W.  L.  Perkins,  Student  in  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary. 
W.  O.  and  Ona  Albert,  Students  in  Bonebrake  Theological: 
Seminary. 

H.  A.  Lehwald,  Evangelist-at-Large. 

Elizabeth  Thompson,  Teacher  in  Public  Schools. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Conference  Evangelist. 


Conference  Proceedings 


INDEX 


Admitted  to  Advisory  Seats .  IS 

Applicants  for  License .  24 

Appointments  pro  tern. — 

Conference  Treasurer  .  28 

First  Year’s  Reading .  26 

Publishing  Interests  .  31 

Statistical  Secretary  .  26 

Appropriations  . 58 

Auditing  Committee  .  57 

Bar  of  Conference .  19 

Beneficiary  Aid  Meeting .  29 

Bonebrake  Seminary  .  29 

Boundary  and  Finance  Committee,  Next  Year .  43 

Candidates  for  the  Ministry .  36 

Committees  of  Organization  Announced .  19 

Committees,  Special — 

Bulletin,  to  Publish .  60 

Conference  Brotherhood  .  32 

Conference  Bulletin  .  36,  55 

Conference  Burial  Association .  36 

State-wide  Work  .  57 

Tellers  .  55 


Committees  on  Church  Departments — 


Christian  Stewardship  . 2 

Church  Erection  Board  Directors .  3,  55 

Foreign  Missions  .  3,  55 

Home  Missions  .  3,  49 

Sunday-School  Board  of  Control .  3 

Temperance  .  43 

Committees,  Standing,  for  Next  Year .  3 


Clause  Extraordinary  . 
Conference  Chart  .... 
Conference  Expenses  . . 
Conference  Proceedings 
Conference  Quartet  .  .  . 
Conference  Record  .... 


19, 


8 

59 

64 

31 


Election — 

Conference  Treasurer,  for  Next  Year .  55 

Presiding  Elders  .  42 

Presiding  Elders’  Stationing  Committee .  60 

Statistical  Secretary  .  43 

Statistical  Committee  .  43 

Trustees — 

Westfield  College  .  55 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  55 


Evangelist's  Report 


66 


C o inference  Proceeding s 

Examination  of  Licentiates .  18 

Final  Adjournment  .  60 

Greetings — 

Woman's  Missionary  Association . 54 

Inactive  List  .  25 

Instructions  to — 

Chairmen  Reading  Committees .  60 

Conference  Treasurer  .  60 

Church  and  Building  Association  Trustees .  60 

Church  Extension  Fund  Treasurer . * .  57 

Licentiates  .  60 

Ministerial  Institute  .  59 

Pastors  .  41 

Introduced  to  Conference .  18 

Itinerant  List  Corrected . 42 

Leave  of  Absence .  28 

Letters  of  Absentees .  18 

Letter  of  Sympathy .  19,  28 

Memorial  Services  .  56 

Ministerial  Institute .  59 

Necrology  .  4 

Night  Services  .  18 

Notes  . 18 

Officers  of — 

Conference  .  2 

Beneficiary  . 2 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U .  2 

W.  M.  A .  3 

Organization  Committees  Announced .  19 

Octogenarians  Honored  .  28 

Place  of  Next  Meeting .  55 

Pastors'  Reports  . 18 

Presiding  Elder’s  Report .  19 

Presiding  Elders’  Stationing  Committee .  60 

Press  Reporter .  19 

Publishing  Minutes  .  55 

Reports  of  Committees  on  — 

Auditing  Accounts .  57 

Beneficiary  Aid  .  36 

Bible  Cause  . 38 

Boundaries  . . .  42.  59 

Burial  Association .  48 

Christian  Stewardship  .  26 

Christian  Home  .  37 

Church  Erection  .  30 

Conference  Relations  .  29.  50.  61 

Education  .  39 

Elders’  Orders  .  50 

Finance  .  57 

Foreign  Missions  .  51 

Home  Missions  .  46 

Memoirs  .  49 


67 


Conference  Proceeding a 


Nominations  . ' . .  48 

Publishing  Interests  .  35 

Resolutions  . , .  61 

Sunday  Schools  .  32 

Statistical  Secretary  .  60 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U .  31 

Reading  Courses — 

First  Year  . 28 

Second  Year  . .  35.  50 

Third  Year  .  49- 

Fourth  Year  . 34 

Resolutions — 

Memorial  Services  .  50 

Metropolis  Property . • .  61 

Pastors’,  Concerning  Westfield  College . 41 

Pastors’  Reports  .  43 

Paying  Trustees .  50 

Westfield  College  .  41 

Roll  of  Members — 

Active  Itinerants .  4 

Superannuated  Itinerants  .  5 

Supernumerary  Itinerants  .  5 

Local  Preachers  .  6 

Lay  Delegates  . 0 

Social  Purity  Convention .  43 

Stationing  Committee's  Report  .  64 

Statistical  Committee  Elected . : .  43 

Summary  of  Statistics .  17 

Sunday  Services  .  63 

Treasurers’  Reports — 

Beneficiary  Aid  .  30 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  45 

Conference  .  50 

Church  Extension  .  54 

Tellers  Appointed  . 55 

Trustees — 

Westfield  College  .  2,  55 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  2,  55 

Conference,  Report  of .  60 

Vote  of  Thanks .  42 


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OFFICERS  OF  CONFERENCE  ORGANIZATIONS 


Bishop. 

G.  M.  Mathews,  2502  N.  Kedzie  Boulevard,  Chicago,  Ill. 

Secretary. 

L.  H.  Cooley,  312  S.  17th  Street,  Mt.  Vernon,  Ill. 

Statistician. 

L.  E.  Miller,  Toledo,  Ill. 

Conference  Treasurer. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Beneficiary  Aid  Association. 

President — H.  W.  Broadstone,  901  S.  Lincoln  Street.  Robinson,  Ill. 
Vice  President — D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Secretary — T.  D.  Spyker,  Potomac,  Ill. 

Treasurer — J.  T.  McCreery,  1319  A.  State  Street,  E.  St.  Louis,  Ill. 

Young  People’s  Christian  Endeavor  Union. 

President — C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Ill. 

Vice  President — C.  E.  Bigelow.  Westfield,  Ill. 

Recording  Secretary — Gladys  Jones,  Oblong,  Ill. 

Corresponding  Secretary — Miss  Eloise  Muncie,  Olney,  Ill. 

Superintendent  Foreign  Missions — Miss  Teresa  Middagh,  Lawrenceville, 
Superintendent  Home  Missions — Miss  Helen  Ensor,  Olney.  Ill. 
Superintendent  Christian  Stewardship — Paul  Connett,  Robinson,  Ill. 
Superintendent  of  Education — W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

Superintendent  of  Quiet  Hour — Harry  Lathrop. 

Superintendent  of  Juniors — Mrs.  C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Ill. 

Treasurer — E.  H.  McElfresh,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Westfield  College  Trustees. 

1912—  W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill.,  C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

1913 —  M.  L.  Briscoe,  Westfield.  Ill.,  C.  C.  Hodges,  West  Union,  Ill. 

1914 —  C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Ill.,  J.  M.  England,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Trustees  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association. 

President — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  W.  Fairchild  Street,  Danville,  Ill. 
Secretary — J.  T.  McCreery,  1319  A.  State  Street,  E.  St.  Louis,  Ill. 
Treasurer — J.  C.  Fowler,  Paris,  Ill. 

Ex-Officio 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  1129  Chandler  St.,  Danville,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  Robinson.  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan.  Olney,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship. 

U  E.  Miller,  Toledo,  Ill. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake,  308  W.  Fairchild  Street,  Danville,  Ill. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Home  Missions. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  President,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Everett  E.  Johnson,  Secretary,  Charleston,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Robinson.  Ill. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake.  Danville,  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 


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Hia 

Woman’s  Branch  Missionary  Society. 

President — Mrs.  H.  V.  Anderson.  Westfield,  Ill. 

Secretary — Mrs.  N.  E.  Royer,  Borton,  Ill. 

Treasurer — Mrs.  L.  A.  Kider,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Sabbath  School  Board  of  Control. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  702  E.  Pine  Street,  Robinson,  Ill. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Foreign  Missions. 

S.  O  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Ill. 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  Ill. 

F.  H.  King.  Paris,  Ill. 

H.  G.  Taylor,  Olney,  Ill. 

Committee  on  Memoirs. 

S.  O.  Stoltz,  St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Bluford,  Ill. 

C.  A.  Hall.  Long  View,  Ill. 

To  provide  for  memorial  services  next  year  if  there  is  need. 

Court  of  Appeals. 

D.  R.  Seneff  and  S'.  Mills,  Westfield,  Ill. 

Board  of  Directors  General  Church  Erection. 

B.  B.  Phelps,  Rossville,  Ill. 

E.  M.  Pierson,  Marshall,  III. 

C.  A.  Dwyer,  1129  Chandler  Street,  Danville,  Ill. 

W.  L.  Duncan,  Olney,  Ill. 

J.  B.  Norviel,  702  E.  Pine  Street,  Robinson,  Ill. 


STANDING  COMMITTEES  FOR  1912 


Church  Erection — C.  N.  Glad  well. 

Education — J.  G.  Breden. 

Publishing  Interests — D.  R.  Seneff. 

Sunday-School  Interests — Everett  E.  Johnson. 

Christian  Endeavor  Union — H.  A.  Bogard. 

The  Christian  Home — G.  W.  Reid. 

Temperance — J.  C.  Fowler. 

Resolutions — B.  N.  Sypolt. 

Bible  Cause — J.  L.  Pellum. 

Course  of  Beading. 

First  Year’s  Committee— D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  R.  Connett,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Class — G.  W.  Padrick,  I.  J.  Knapp,  Miss  Daisy  Bowman,  ,J.  T. 
Story,  J.  E.  Spencer,  B.  E.  Peters,  C.  N.  Gladwell,  C.  W. 
Perkins,  W.  L.  Fear,  Mrs.  W.  L.  Fear,  L.  M.  Cooper. 
Second  Year’s  Committee — E.  E.  Bundy,  D.  C.  Ade,  L.  II.  Cooley. 

Class— R.  L.  Webber,  J.  E.  Sibert. 

Third  Year’s  Committee — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  J.  C.  Fowler,  R.  Griffin. 

Class — B.  Blackburn,  H.  S.  Reese,  I.  S.  Mclver. 

Fourth  Year’s  Committee— T.  D.  Spyker,  N.  E.  Royer,  J.  T.  McCreery. 
Class — I.  S.  Mclver. 


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NECROLOGY 

Of  Members  from  the  Organization  of  the  Conference 


Cherished  Names.  Died. 

A.  Dunbar  . 1860 

H.  S.  Stump  . 1860 

W.  H.  Brown . 1861 

S.  Coblentz  . 1862 

T.  B.  Thrapp  . 1863 

A.  Sweasy  . 1864 

•  S.  Greason  . 1867 

H.  Clark  . 1871 

J.  Simpson,  Sr . 1872 

J.  H  Bedwell  . 1873 

D.  Stoltz  . 1874 

A.  W.  Hedge  . 1874 

S.  Hayworth  . 1874 

O.  P.  Hurst  . 1874 

J.  Severe  . 1875 

S.  Stark  . 1875 

J.  Cottman  . 1875 

B.  Lloyd  . 1875 

J  Simpson,  Jr . 1876 

D.  Ross  . 1879 

P.  Story  . 1879 

M.  T.  Tobey  . 1880 

B.  Cole  . 1880 

J.  P.  Shue  . 1880 

S.  G.  Brock  . 1881 

W.  G.  Hartman  . 1881 

H.  Severn  . 1882 

W.  McGinnis  .  . . 1883 

S.  Ross  . 1883 

J.  Tobey  . 1884 

A.  Collins  . 1884 

J.  Burtner  . 1884 

P.  Brock  . 1884 


Cherished  Names.  Died. 

S.  Allenbaugh  . '.1884 

S.  C.  Stewart  . 1885 

M.  Hail  . 1885 

S.  B.  Allen  . 1886 

J.  L.  Cardwell  . 1889 

L.  S.  Chittenden  . 1892 

A.  Helton  . 1892 

J.  Grim  . 1892 

Daniel  Mater  . 1893 

A.  Briley  . 1893 

I.  W.  Williams  . 1893 

J.  R.  Helton  . 1896 

S.  Schlosser  . 1896 

E.  Shuey  . 1897 

J.  Sheets  . 1898 

W.  Kauble  . 1898 

J.  G.  Shuey  . 1901 

J.  J.  Page  . 1901 

S.  Keagy  . 1902 

D.  Bussard  . 1902 

A.  Rider  . 1904 

S.  Smoot  . 1904 

W.  C.  Smith  . 1905 

R.  Clark  . 1906 

J.  Dickens  . 1906 

W.  E.  Anderson  . 1908 

S.  Bussard  . 1908 

J.  H.  Penner  . 1908 

J.  Peachy  . 1908 

W.  Quigley  . ....1908 

J.  Cougill  . 1910 

B.  G.  Wood  . 1911 

D.  F.  Meek  . 1912 


ROLL  OF  MEMBERS 


Active  Itinerants.  Joined.  Ordained. 

Ade,  D.  C . 1919 . 1897.  . 

Albert.  W.  O . 

Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  . 

Ball,  G.  W . 1890 . 1905.. 

Bowman,  Miss  Daisy . 1909 . 

Broadstone,  H.  W.  . . 1874 . 1888.. 


Bogard,  O.  .7 . 1906 . 

Bogard,  H.  A.  . 1906 . 

Bundy,  E.  E . ..1908 . 

Bonebrake,  G.  W . 1900 . 1902 

Connett,  J.  B . 1886 . 1889 

Cooley,  L.  H . 1881 . 1891 


Decker.  T.  H. 


1907 


Post-Office . 

White  Heath,  Ill. 
Dayton,  Ohio. 

Dayton,  Ohio. 

Vergennes.  Ill. 

Danville.  Ill. 

901  S.  Lincoln  Street, 
Robinson.  Ill. 

St.  Francisville.  Ill. 
Martinsville,  111. 
Chesterville,  Ill. 

308  W.  Fairchild  Street, 
Danville,  Ill. 
Robinson.  Ill. 

312  S.  17th  Street, 

Mt.  Vernon,  Ill. 

Flora,  Ill. 


,  1911 

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Conference  Pro cee ding s 


Joined.  Ordained. 


Post-Office, 


Active  Itinerants. 

Dwyer,  0.  A . 1910 . 1129  Chandler  Street, 

Danville,  Ill. 

Duncan,  W  L . 1894.  .....  1900 . Olney,  Ill. 

Fisher,  I.  B.  . 1911 . 5025  Raymond  Ave., 

St.  Louis,  Mo. 

Fowler,  .T.  F . 1895 . 1901  . Moweaqua,  Ill.,  Route  2 

Fowler,  J.  C.  . 1887.  .....  1891 . Lawrenceville,  Ill. 

Gladwell,  C.  N.  . 1910 . Galton.  Ill. 

Griffin,  R . 1893 . 1896 . Olney,  Ill. 

ITall,  C.  A . 1903 .  1907 . Long  View,  Ill. 

Ilarbert,  IV.  C.  . 1888 .  1891 . Olney,  Ill. 

Hudson.  II.  D . 1898 .  1901 . Sumner,  Ill. 

King,  F.  H . 1907 . Paris,  Ill. 

Lewald,  H.  A . 1910 . Olney,  Ill. 

Myers,  C  0 . 1904 . 1907 . Penfield,  Ill. 

McCreery,  J.  T . 1891 . 1898 . 1319  A.  State  Street, 

E.  St.  Louis,  Ill. 

Miller.  L.  E . 1900 .  1903 . Toledo,  Ill. 

Muncie.  W.  R.  . 1877 .  1880 . Olney,  Ill. 

Mclver,  I.  S.  . 1902 . Flora,  Ill. 

Norviel,  J.  B . 1887 . 1890 . 702  E.  Pine  Street, 

Robinson,  Ill. 

Nash,  Mrs.  R.  J.  . 1905 . 1910 . Flora,,  Ill.,  Route  3. 

Olmstead,  A.  J.  . 1910 . Johnstown,  Ill. 

Pierson,  E.  M . 1892 . 1896 . Marshall,  Ill. 

Padrick,  G.  W . 1902 . Westfield.  Ill. 

Perkins,  W.  L . 1902 .  1906 . Dayton,  Ohio. 

Peters,  B.  C . *.1905 . Yale,  Ill. 

Phelps,  B.  B . 1909 . 1895 . Rossville.  Ill. 

Pellurn,  G.  L . 1903 . 1911 . Oblong,  Ill. 

Reese,  II.  S . 1904 . Casey,  Ill. 

Reid,  G.  W.  . 1890 .  1905 . Loogootee,  Ill. 

Royer,  N.  E . 1893 . 1903 . Borton,  Ill. 

Seneff,  D.  R . 1885 . 1888 . Westfield,  Ill. 

Spyker,  T.  D . 1878 . 1884 . Potomac,  Ill. 

Stoltz,  S.  0 . 1897 . 1900 . St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Sypolt,  B.  N . 1911 . Findlay,  Ill. 

Tipsword,  H.  M. 


Superannuated 

Itinerants. 


:.  . . . 

. 1895 . . 

....  1898 .... 

..Robinson,  Ill. 
..Oakwood,  Ill. 

. 1905. . 

_ 1911.  .  .  . 

Joined. 

Ordained. 

Post-Office. 

. 1907. . 

_  1892 _ 

.  .Terre  Haute,  Ind 

TL  . 

. 1906 . . 

.  .Terre  Haute,  Ind. 

. 1889. . 

.  .Toledo,  Ill. 

. 1886. . 

_  1890 _ 

.  .Enfield,  Ill. 

# 

. 1859. . 

..Westfield,  Ill 

Moore,  J.  F . 1861 . 1859 . Holton,  Kan. 

Nye,  J.  W . Chrisman,  Ill. 

Stevenson,  Mrs.  C.  A.  ...1891 . 1894 . Toledo,  Ill. 


Walters,  T. 

. 1881. . 

_ 1891 . 

Supern  um  erary 

Itinerants. 

Joined. 

Ordained. 

Post-Office. 

Boley,  E.  .  .  .  . 

1 807 

•  •••••••••  JLL7i/  1  •  • 

- 1 900 . 

.Olney,  Ill. 

Boster.  G.  W. 

1  804 

•  •••••••••  JL  ’  J  1/  JL  •  • 

_ 1899 . 

.Dahlgron,  Ill. 

Byard.  .T.  11.  . 

. 1888.  . 

_ 1891 . 

.Dix,  Ill. 

Coffman.  J.  .  . 

. 1870. . 

- 1871 . 

. Bluford,  Ill. 

Coen,  H . 

Eastin.  J.  H. 

. 1900. . 

. 1910. . 

_  1874 . 

.Olney,  Ill. 

Fink,  F.  M . 1885 . 1898 . Rose  Hill,  Ill..  R.  F.  D. 

Haycock,  W.  0 . 1894 . 1901  . St.  Francisville,  Ill. 

Hall,  D.  T.  . 1909 . Rose  Hill,  Ill. 

Hall,  W.  M . ..1909 . Charleston,  Ill. 

Keller,  G.  W . 1890 . Taylorville,  Ill. 

Knapp.  T.  J . 1909 . Fisher,  Ill. 


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Supernumerary 

Itinerants. 

Joined \ 

Ordained. 

Post  Office. 

Nickerson,  W.  H . 

_ 1908. . 

.  .  .  .  1900 .  .  . 

Perkins.  C.  W . 

Shuey,  W.  R . 

Smith,  J.  A.  . 

- 1 862 . . 

_  1869.  .  . 

....  1 873 . . 

.  .  .  Bluford.  111. 

Stevenson,  D.  K  . . .  . 

_ 1887. . 

....  1 893 . . . 

.  .  .Toledo,  Ill. 

Tohill.  J . 

_ 1879 . . 

_  1889. . . 

Thompson,  Miss  E.  .  . 

_ 1907. . 

Local  Preachers.  Joined. 

Byrd,  L . 1009.. 

Blackburn,  B . 1909. 

Cooper.  L.  M . 1912.. 

Fear,  W.  L . 1911.. 

Fear,  Mrs  W.  I>.  . 1912 .  . 

Sibert,  J.  B . 1911.. 

Spencer,  J.  E . 1911.. 

Story,  .T.  T . 1911., 

Webber,  R.  L . 1910.. 


Post-Office. 

Rossville,  Ill. 
Montezuma,  Ind. 

Clarksburg,  Ill. 
Clarksburg,  Ill. 
Beecher  City.  Ill. 
Rose  Hill,  Ill. 
Wheeler,  Ill. 
Calhoun,  Ill. 


LAY  DELEGATES 


DANVILLE  DISTRICT. 

Fields.  Delegate.  Fields. 

Ashmore . J.  A.  Reprogle  Fisher . 

Blue  Mound . Sadie  Hardesty  Halton . 

Broadlands . W.  E.  Shell  Locust  Grove 

Ohesterville . Dale  Watson  Oakwood .  .  .  . 

Charleston . Walter  Hall  Potomac . 

Danville,  First . L.  A.  Shindler  Penfield . 

Danville,  Perric  Ave.  ..A.  O.  Ramsey  Redmon . 


Findlay . Mary  A.  Stumpf  White  Heath 


Delegate. .  . 
H.  E.  Trotter 


. Cyrus  Weakly 

.  .  ..T.  L.  Litherland. 
...Elmor  Moreland 

. Grace  Gray 

.  .  .  .  L.  L.  Swinford 

. Geo.  Stump 

. Ilaram  Curl 


OLNEY  DISTRICT. 

Fields.  Delegate.  Fields. 

Birds . F.  D.  Fitch  Olney  Ct . 

Bluford . R.  C.  Wood  Parkersburg.... 

East  St.  Louis . E.  H.  Carson  Robinson . 

Flora  Sta . M.  O.  Cullison  Sumner . . 

Flora  Ct . Wm.  McCord  St.  Francisville 

Lawrenceville . Wm.  Gay  Vienna . 

Mt.  Vernon . L.  S.  Wood  Vergennes . 

New  Hebron . ^...John  Kennedy  West  Salem.... 

Oblong . Geo.  Cortleyou  Woodlawn . 

Olney  Sta . H.  G.  Taylor 

WESTFIELD  DISTRICT. 

Fields.  Delegate.  Fields. 

Avena . C.  B.  Turner  Martinsville... 

Beecher  City... Mrs.  Harriet  Sweazy  Marshall  Sta... 

Casey  Sta . Richard  Shores  Marshall  Ct. .  .  . 

Casey  Ct . John  Luke  Paris . . 

Clarksburg . J.  W.  Troutman  Toledo . 

Greenup . Myrtle  L.  Sperry  Vermillion . 

Island  Grove . Noah  Clodfelter  Westfield  Sta... 

Johnstown . L.  W.  Titus  Westfield  Ct. .  .  . 

Loogootee . Miss  Leta  Steele  Yale . 


Delegate. 
..Harry  Bourne. 
.  .  Harley  Adkins 
.  .  .  J.  E.  Wesley 

. Oris  Pepple 

.Jesse  Litherland 
.  ..D.  W.  Mathis 
.  .  .  L.  J.  Walters 
Joseph  Buchanon 
...II.  H.  Cheely 


Delegate. 

....  Frank  Lenox 

. L.  W.  Jones 

. C.  C.  Hodges 

W.  IT.  Ilighsmith 
.  .  .  .  E.  A.  Norviel 
...Mary  E.  Glick 
.  .  .  .C.  E.  Bigelow 
.  W.  A.  Wood  burn 
. A.  C.  Lewis 


6 


Conference  Proceedings 


CONFERENCE  RECORD  FROM  ORGANIZATION 


Time.  Place.  Bishop.  Secretaries. 

Mar.  17-21,  1859 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards..  W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.  22-25,  1860 . New  Hebron,  111. ..  .Edwards ..  W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.’  21-24,  1861 . Vermillion,  Ill . Edwards..  W.  C.  Smith. 

Mar.  13-16,  1862 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards..  W.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills. 

Mar.  26-29,  1863 . Centerpoint,  Ind.. .  .Edwards ..  W.  C.  Smith,  S.  Mills. 

Mar.  31-April  4.  1864 .  Vermillion,  Ill . Edwards ..  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  8-11,  1864 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ..  .Edwards ..  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  7 - ,  1865 . Parkersburg,  Ill. ...  Weaver ...  S.  Mills,  G.  W.  Keller. 

Aug.  22-25,  1866 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver.  ..  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  27-31,  1867 . Prairieton,  Ind . Weaver...  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  19-23,  1868 . Vermillion,  Ill . Weaver...  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Aug.  19-23,  1869 . Westfield,  Ill . Edwards..  S.  Mills,  J.  W.  Nye. 

Sept.  14-19,  1870 . New  Hebron,  Ill, ..  .Edwards ..  J.  H.  Ross,  W.  C.  Smith. 

Sept.  6-11,  1871 . Terre  Haute,  Ind. .  .Edwards ..  .T.  H.  Ross,  S.  Mills. 

Aug.  21-26,  1872 . New  Goshen,  Ind. .  .Edwards ..  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Aug.  4-9,  1873 . Westfield,  Ill . Dickson... S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Oct  8-12,  1874 . Prairieton,  Ind . Dickson...  S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Sept.  29-Oct.  2,  1875 .  .Vermillion,  Ill . Dickson... S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Oct.  4-8,  1876 . Middlebury,  Ind. ..  .Dickson ...  S.  Mills,  H.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  26-30,  1877 . Centerpoint.  Ind.. ..  Weaver ...  S.  Mills,  W.  H.  Long. 

Oct.  9-13,  1878 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver...  S.  Mills,  II.  L.  Brengle. 

Oct.  15-19,  1879 . Vermillion,  Ill . Weaver... S.  Mills. 

Oct.  6-10,  1880 . Centerpoint,  Ind.. ..  Weaver ..  .S.  Mills,  II.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1881..  New  Goshen,  Ind. .  .  Kephart. .  .  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  6-10,  1882 . Parkersburg,  Ill. ...  Kephart. ..  S.  Mills,  R.  L.  Brengle. 

Sept.  19-23,  1883 . Westfield,  Ill . Kephart. ..  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  17-21,  1884 . New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Kephart. ..  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  30-Oct.  4,  1885 .  .Redmon,  Ill . Castle . S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  29-Oct.  3,  1886 .  .Centerpoint,  Ind.. ..  Kephart. ..  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  28-Oct.  2,  1887.. New  Hebron,  Ill. ...  Weaver ...  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Muncie. 

Sept.  26-30,  1888 . Westfield,  Ill . Dickson...  S.  Mills,  W.  It.  Muncie. 

Sept.  25-29,  1889 . Clay  City,  Ind . Kephart. ..  S.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

Sept.  24-30,  1890 . Paris,  Ill . Castle . S.  Mills,  D.  R.  Seneff. 

Aug.  26-30,  1891 . Westfield,  Ill . Weaver...  S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  31-Sept.  4,  1892.. Clay  City.  Ind . Dickson... S.  Mills,  W.  R.  Shuey. 

Aug.  30-Sept.  4,  1893. Terre  Haute,  Ind. .  .  Hott . S.  Mills,  W.  It.  Shuey. 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1894 .Westfield,  Ill . Castle . S.  Mills,  W.  It.  Shuey. 

Aug.  28-Sept.  1,  1895. Oblong,  Ill . Kephart..  .L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  9-13,  1896 . Paris,  Ill . Mills . L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  22-26,  1897 . Clay  City,  Ind . Weaver... L.  H.  Cooley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  21-25,  1898 . Terre  Haute,  Ind.  ..Castle L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  30-Sept.  3,  1899 .  Westfield,  Ill . Castle. .....  L.  II.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  5-9,  1900 . Olney,  Ill . Weaver...  L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Sept.  4-8,  1901 . Casey,  Ill . Hott . L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  27-31,  1902 . Oblong,  Ill . Mathews.. L.  H.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  26-30,  1903 . Terre  Haute,  Ind. ..  Mathews ..  L.  II.  Cooley.  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  17-21,  1904 . Mt.  Vernon,  Ill. ...  Mathews ..  L.  H.  Cooley,  J.  A.  Hawkins. 

Sept.  6-11,  1905 . Olney,  Ill . Mathews ..  Edw.  Boley,  A.  D.  Markley. 

Aug.  29-Sept.  2,  1906 . Westfield,  Ill . Mathews.. A.  D.  Markley,  W.  L.  Perkins 

Aug.  21-25,  1907 . Terre  Haute,  Ind. .  .Mathews.  .  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  H.  Cooley. 

Aug.  19-23,  1908 . Paris,  Ill . Mathews..  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  H.  Cooley. 

Aug.  18-22,  1909 . Casey,  Ill . Mathews..  A.  D.  Markley,  L.  H.  Cooley. 

Sept.  7-11,  1910 . Robinson,  Ill . Bell . L.  II.  Cooley,  W.  L.  Perkins. 

Aug.  23-27,  1911 . Danville,  Ill . Mathews..  L.  H.  Cooley,  C.  A.  Dwyer. 

Aug.  21-25,  1912 . St.  Francisville,  Ill. Mathews ..  L.  H.  Cooley,  L.  E.  Miller 


7 


FIELD  OF  LABOR 

NAME  OF  PREACHER 

• 

No  Churches 

Organized. 

No.  New  Chur¬ 

ches  Organized. 

No.  Churches 

Disorganized. 

At  Beginning  of 

Year. 

Received  by 

Prof,  of  Faith. 

Danville  District — 

Ashmore . 

Curtis  Williams . 

3 

166 

1 5 

Blue  Mound . 

Arthur  Belden . 

2 

3 

105 

8 

Broadlands . 

C.  A.  Hall . 

126 

80 

Chesterville . 

E.  E.  Bundv . 

1 

184 

8 

Danville  First . 

G.  W.  Bonebrake . 

1 

•  230 

18 

Danville  Perrysville  Ave . 

Danville  Circuit . 

S.  D.  Bowman . 

1 

36 

33 

C.  A.  Dwyer . 

3 

252 

30 

Findlay . 

B.  N.  Sypolt . 

2 

131 

24 

Fisher . 

R.  J.  Nash . 

9 

** 

175 

10 

Galton . 

B.  B.  Phelps . 

2 

118 

3 

Locust  Grove . 

J.  F.  Fowler . 

1 

140 

12 

Oakwood . 

M.  L.  Watson . 

3 

163 

5 

Otterbein . 

1 

26 

Potomac . 

T.  D.  Spyker . 

2 

191 

12 

Penfield . 

C.  O.  Myers . 

2 

122 

Redmon . 

N.  E.  Royer . 

3 

284 

36 

Rossville . 

R.  Whittaker . 

3 

218 

15 

White  Heath . 

D.  C.  Ade . 

3 

151 

Summary . 

38 

2818 

309 

Olney  District — 

Birds . 

H.  W.  Broadstone . 

5 

% 

167 

12 

Bluford  . 

W.  O.  Albert . 

p* 

o 

425 

8 

East  St.  Louis . 

T.  T.  McCreery . 

1 

Flora . 

1 

114 

27 

Flora  Circuit . 

T.  H.  Decker . 

3 

215 

28 

Lawrenceville . 

J.  C.  Fowler . 

2 

207 

49 

Mt.  Vernon . 

L.  H.  Cooley . 

1 

64 

7 

New  Hebron . 

S.  O.  Stoltz . 

4 

312 

22 

Oblong . 

T.  L.  Pellum . 

1 

154 

1 

Olnev . 

R.  Griffin . 

1 

315 

33 

Olney  Circuit . 

W.  R.  Muncie . 

o 

329 

20 

Parkersburg . 

C.  N.  Gladwell . 

5 

292 

28 

Robinson . 

J.  B.  Norviel . 

1 

269 

15 

Sumner . 

H.  D.  Hudson . 

p* 

o 

365 

75 

St.  Francisville . 

O.  T.  Bogard . 

3 

410 

21 

Vienna . 

J.  W.  Bobb . 

3 

121 

2 

Vereennes . 

G.  W.  Ball . 

4 

294 

30 

West  Salem . 

W.  C.  Harbert . 

4 

355 

14 

Woodlawn . 

I.  B.  Fisher . 

2 

169 

1 

Summary . 

55 

1 

4577 

393 

Westfield  District — 

Avena . 

C.  E.  Hogue . 

4 

226 

7 

Beecher  City . 

Edgar  Sibert . .  . 

3 

152 

9 

Casey . 

C.  S.  Parker . 

1 

217 

12 

Casey  Circuit . 

H.  S.  Reese . 

4 

20S 

32 

Clarksburg . 

W.  L.  Fear . 

4 

170 

8 

Greenup . 

J.  T.  Story . 

6 

121 

3 

Island  Grove . 

T.  E.  Spencer . 

3 

166 

7 

Johnstown . 

L.  C.  Maple . 

4 

132 

11 

Loogootee . 

G.  W.  Reid . 

5 

197 

1 1 

Martinsville . 

H.  A.  Bogard . 

.2 

226 

25 

Marshall . 

E.  M.  Pierson . 

1 

81 

12 

Marshall  Circuit . 

W.  M.  McComas . 

3 

194 

13 

Paris . 

F.  H.  King . 

1 

291 

44 

Toledo . 

L.  E.  Miller . 

3 

137 

27 

Vermillion . 

W.  Blasley . 

2 

130 

8 

Westfield . 

J.  G.  B  reden . 

1 

224 

15 

Westfield  Circuit 

G.  W.  Pad  rick . 

4 

211 

54 

Yale . ’ .  .  .  . 

B.  C.  Peters . 

5 

350 

12 

Charleston  First 

Everett  E  Tohnson 

1 

District  Summary 

56 

1 

3433 

310 

Grand  Total . 

154 

2 

*10828 

1012 

I 

This  number  should  have  been  10,864  as  per  last  year‘s  minutes,  but  the  change  of  boundaries 
has  caused  the  ina  -curacy.  The  inaccuracy  allows  a  gain  of  73,  but  reckoning  from  the  number 
we  closed  with  last  year,  we  have  only  a  gain  of  37. 


Received  by 
Letter. 

Total  in  Church, 
During  Year. 

Died. 

All  other  losses. 

Total  Loss. 

Present 

Number. 

Increase. 

Decrease. 

Young  People’s 

Societies. 

Members. 

Junior  Societies. 

Members. 

Brotherhoods. 

Members. 

Sunday  Schools. 

Teachers 

and  Officers. 

Scholars  in 

Main  Schools. j 

1 81 

2 

28 

30 

151 

15 

2 

55 

3 

29 

126 

113 

2 

2 

111 

6 

2 

45 

3 

24 

130 

‘r4 

210 

2 

2 

208 

82 

3 

65 

3 

60 

1 

19 

3 

28 

325 

2 

194 

1 

30 

31 

163 

21 

1 

96 

1 

30 

1 

18 

175 

7 

255 

23 

23 

232 

2 

] 

35 

1 

30 

1 

35 

1 

26 

186 

2 

71 

1 

1 

70 

34 

1 

37 

1 

20 

1 

10 

80 

4 

286 

5 

8 

13 

273 

21 

1 

55 

1 

20 

3 

43 

225 

1 

156 

3 

29 

32 

124 

7 

1 

2 

2 

185 

2 

13 

15 

170 

5 

1 

25 

2 

121 

3 

17 

20 

101 

17 

1 

30 

2 

28 

93 

1  52 

1 

11 

12 

140 

1 

18 

120 

168 

5 

23 

28 

140 

23 

3 

24 

170 

26 

26 

1 

30 

2 

205 

11 

9 

20 

185 

6 

1 

15 

2 

27 

260 

2 

124 

7 

7 

117 

5 

1 

35 

1 

22 

2 

24 

150 

2 

322 

0 

14 

17 

305 

21 

2 

54 

3 

35 

290 

8 

241 

2 

19 

21 

220 

2 

2 

60 

1 

40 

3 

18 

3 

30 

240 

1 

152 

.... 

6 

6 

146 

.... 

5 

1 

83 

1 

25 

2 

22 

135 

35 

3162 

40 

240 

280 

2882 

168 

104 

21 

690 

11 

227 

4 

92 

38 

386 

2735 

179 

3 

14 

17 

162 

5 

4 

36 

210 

’  i 

434 

1 

4  4 

45 

389 

36 

2 

94 

5 

48 

530 

14 

14 

14 

14 

11 

152 

39 

39 

1 13 

1 

1 

86 

i 

65 

i 

36 

40 

7 

250 

6 

28 

34 

216 

1 

3 

61 

3 

33 

181 

6 

262 

13 

13 

249 

42 

1 

85 

1 

54 

2 

34 

200 

8 

79 

18 

18 

61 

3 

1 

25 

1 

40 

1 

1 1 

89 

334 

3 

51 

54 

280 

32 

2 

60 

4 

49 

275 

4 

159 

1 

17 

18 

141 

13 

1 

23 

i 

45 

1 

21 

125 

6 

354 

3 

12 

15 

339 

~24 

1 

61 

1 

83 

1 

23 

250 

34-9 

2 

7 

9 

340 

11 

1 

20 

5 

264 

6 

326 

2 

14 

16 

310 

18 

1 

30 

6 

73 

388 

284 

2 

16 

18 

266 

3 

1 

30 

i 

35 

1 

20 

255 

6 

446 

5 

9 

14 

432 

~67 

4 

100 

1 

37 

5 

59 

398 

1 

432 

7 

31 

38 

394 

16 

2 

122 

2 

65 

3 

58 

260 

123 

123 

2 

O 

26 

150 

324 

3 

95 

98 

226 

68 

2 

45 

4 

40 

300 

369 

2 

26 

28 

341 

14 

1 

28 

4 

50 

200 

.... 

170 

1 

15 

16 

154 

.... 

15 

1 

45 

2 

18 

255 

70 

5040 

41 

449 

490 

4550 

179 

208 

25 

915 

9 

424 

55 

615 

4370 

233 

7 

7 

226 

3 

30 

110 

2 

163 

1 

19 

20 

143 

9 

1 

20 

3 

31 

175 

229 

2 

6 

8 

221 

4 

1 

40 

1 

80 

1 

20 

290 

240 

2 

9 

11 

229 

21 

4 

50 

240 

2 

180 

2 

17 

19 

161 

9 

2 

21 

100 

124 

5 

8 

13 

111 

10 

5 

60 

280 

173 

1 

8 

9 

164 

2 

0 

<*) 

40 

150 

143 

3 

3 

140 

8 

2 

23 

175 

208 

3 

5 

8 

200 

3 

5 

48 

240 

2 

253 

2 

28 

30 

223 

3 

2 

20 

1 90 

7 

100 

10 

10 

90 

9 

i 

34 

i 

26 

1 

23 

72 

1 

208 

1 

7 

8 

200 

6 

1 

25 

3 

30 

165 

16 

351 

154 

154 

197 

94 

1 

40 

1 

35 

i 

50 

1 

20 

220 

15 

179 

5 

7 

12 

167 

30 

* 

1 

1 5 

3 

28 

1x85 

2 

140 

8 

8 

132 

2 

1 

40 

2 

30 

150 

9 

248 

2 

12 

14 

234 

10 

1 

46 

2 

59 

1 

75 

1 

21 

410 

265 

4 

1 

5 

260 

49 

1 

84 

4 

45 

225 

362 

1 

20 

21 

341 

9 

1 

25 

K 

43 

240 

30 

30 

30 

30 

1 

17 

59 

86 

3829 

31 

329 

360 

3469 

172 

136 

10 

369 

5 

200 

2 

125 

51 

600 

3676 

191 

12031 

112 

1018 

1130 

10901 

519 

446 

56 

1974 

25 

851 

6 

217 

143 

1601 

10781 

FIELD  OF  LABOR 

Scholars  in 

Home  Dept. 

1-1 

f! 

Total 

Enrollment. 

Average 

Attendance. 

No.  Adult 

Bible  Classes. 

Scholars  in  Ad’t 

Bible  Classes. 

Sunday-school 

Libraries. 

Volumes  in 

Libraries. 

I  - 

Added  Church 

from  S.  S. 

Religious 

Telescope. 

Watchword. 

Friend  for 

Boys  and  Girls. 

Otterbein 

Teacher. 

Danville  District — 

Ashmore . 

5 

160 

95 

5 

10 

22 

14 

Blue  Mound . 

7 

19 

180 

105 

1 

20 

6 

9 

15 

2 

Broadlands . 

10 

33 

396 

240 

1 

15 

56 

19 

20 

25 

14 

Chesterville . 

10 

24 

227 

85 

2 

60 

8 

6 

6 

20 

10 

Danville  First . 

51 

18 

285 

105 

5 

48 

1 

8 

18 

20 

8 

60 

5 

Danville  Perrysville  Ave  . 

12 

25 

127 

35 

2 

16 

2 

7 

18 

6 

Danville  Circuit . 

15 

28 

311 

160 

8 

100 

18 

30 

54 

15 

5 

Findlay . 

6 

1 

9 

15 

25 

5 

Fisher . 

17 

120 

80 

4 

45 

6 

13 

40 

12 

Galton . 

121 

48 

3 

5 

5 

Locust  Grove . 

24 

162 

85 

28 

18 

6 

Oakwood . 

12 

44 

250 

150 

2 

35 

2 

50 

5 

23 

20 

10 

Otterbein . 

9 

2 

9 

Potomac . 

7 

24 

320 

175 

9 

22 

70 

30 

15 

Penfield . 

40 

200 

100 

3 

40 

1 

16 

75 

10 

Redmon . 

78 

47 

450 

296 

7 

121 

28 

16 

54 

12 

Rossville . 

25 

25 

320 

145 

6 

56 

25 

50 

50 

14 

White  Heath . 

21 

12 

189 

1 

18 

11 

40 

9 

Summary . . 

248 

400 

3819 

1874 

44 

583 

5 

58 

162 

264 

474 

283 

154 

Olney  District — 

Birds . 

12 

45 

305 

18 

15 

24 

8 

Bluford . 

12 

590 

400 

8 

40 

24 

60 

27 

East  St.  Louis . 

11 

5 

1 

Flora . 

40 

140 

79 

3 

44 

is 

7 

40 

8 

Flora  Circuit . 

214 

160 

6 

84 

30 

8 

25 

25 

18 

Lawrenceville . 

115 

350 

170 

4 

75 

14 

28 

80 

30 

17 

Mt.  Vernon . 

2 

8 

20 

25 

5 

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72 

65 

442 

260 

12 

47 

60 

40 

8 

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45 

181 

90 

5 

40 

1 

25 

21 

50 

24 

10 

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42 

80 

395 

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5 

61 

15 

38 

20 

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15 

30 

309 

250 

5 

50 

15 

29 

20 

12 

Parkersburg . 

46 

497 

243 

4 

62 

16 

25 

50 

10 

10 

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55 

54 

384 

135 

2 

65 

4 

34 

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25 

50 

532 

300 

5 

80 

25 

55 

75 

30 

26 

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25 

21 

364 

270 

7 

110 

50 

80 

30 

Vienna . 

176 

75 

6 

10 

Vergennes . 

70 

410 

275 

28 

27 

11 

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West  Salem . 

250 

175 

21 

25 

15 

Wood  Lawn . 

36 

291 

114 

7 

9 

15 

Summary . 

257 

709 

5530 

3141 

46 

671 

1 

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187 

474 

664 

283 

229 

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Avena . 

140 

80 

19 

4 

Beecher  City . 

206 

125 

18 

30 

15 

9 

Casey . 

30 

30 

370 

185 

7 

130 

14 

125 

80 

10 

Casey  Circuit . 

290 

140 

10 

Clarksburg . 

121 

63 

23 

15 

Greenup . 

340 

143 

2 

3 

1 

2 

Island  Grove . 

50 

240 

150 

3 

8 

20 

4 

Johnstown .... 

198 

75 

5 

6 

Loogootee . 

280 

200 

11 

26 

26 

Martinsville . 

12 

20 

240 

100 

4 

70 

27 

27 

28 

15 

Marshall . 

15 

110 

55 

4 

39 

12 

26 

18 

5 

Marshall  Circuit . 

195 

130 

9 

12 

40 

5 

Paris . 

30 

30 

300 

125 

6 

141 

30 

20 

50 

7 

Toledo . 

16 

67 

296 

96 

4 

75 

20 

21 

30 

45 

2 

Vermillion . 

53 

28 

261 

120 

7 

95 

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40 

48 

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200 

5 

262 

13 

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209 

195 

12 

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Yale . 

283 

170 

12 

25 

25 

10 

Charleston  First . 

77 

44 

7 

20 

6 

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241 

238 

4675 

2396 

37 

812 

128 

304 

377 

287 

120 

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Ashmore . 

S  54  00 

$  430  00 

$  51  43 

$  60  00 

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$  50  00 

Blue  Mound . 

62  50 

632  50 

40  00 

65  30 

42  30 

Broadlands . 

150  00 

1003  00 

82  00 

225  00 

375  00 

Chesterville . 

100  00 

860  49 

40  00 

100  00 

50  00 

100  00 

Danville  First . 

144  00 

1209  00 

64  00 

300  00 

240  00 

Danville  Perrysville  Av£.  .  . 

375  00 

16  00 

32  97 

23  93 

Danville  Circuit . 

998  21 

85  00 

375  00 

380  92 

111  36 

Findlay . 

108  00 

906  93 

50  00 

106  26 

54  83 

Fisher . 

75  00 

652  00 

56  80 

70  00 

35  00 

75  00 

Galton . 

100  00 

656  82 

50  00 

60  00 

Locust  Grove . 

100  00 

767  35 

64  00 

167  00 

12  00 

60  00 

Oakwood . 

60  00 

647  75 

70  00 

84  00 

5  00 

40  00 

Otterbein . 

Potomac . 

100  00 

825  00 

76  00 

223  22 

20  00 

110  45 

Penfield . 

619  05 

60  00 

40  00 

75  00 

120  00 

Redmon . 

100  00 

777  00 

82  00 

205  00 

100  00 

175  00 

Rossville . : .  .  . 

120  00 

930  00 

70  00 

144  00 

200  00 

120  50 

White  Heath . 

120  00 

525  92 

28  00 

80  50 

11  10 

72  00 

Summary . 

$  1393  50 

$  12816  02 

$  985  23 

$  2278  25 

S  1234  02 

$  1255  32 

Olney  District — 

Birds . 

440  00 

60  00 

90  00 

120  00 

110  07 

Bluford  . 

54  00 

664  95 

70  00 

90  00 

1549  65 

103  20 

East  St.  Louis . 

1115  56 

1811  72 

2  50 

Flora  . 

776  23 

25  00 

195  02 

109  09 

Flora  Circuit . 

545  00 

55  00 

95  00 

934  00 

72  00 

Lawrenceville . 

1071  00 

45  00 

250  00 

1500  00 

130  00 

Mt.  Vernon . 

643  27 

38  00 

34  09 

316  13 

53  10 

New  Hebron . 

765  00 

76  00 

225  00 

600  00 

210  00 

Oblong . 

150  00 

785  00 

50  50 

85  00 

80  00 

Olney . 

200  00 

1029  50 

70  00 

250  50 

1400  00 

125  00 

Olney  Circuit . 

50  00 

610  00 

73  25 

270  00 

4  50 

120  00 

Parkersburg . 

100  00 

898  00 

80  00 

251  10 

1133  00 

105  25 

Robinson . 

100  00 

1028  50 

65  00 

320  00 

230  00 

Sumner . 

150  00 

920  34 

80  00 

200  00 

177  50 

365  50 

St.  Francisville . 

150  00 

1026  00 

78  00 

325  00 

250  00 

300  00 

Vienna . 

60  00 

199  00 

32  25 

10  00 

Vergennes . 

75  00 

550  00 

60  00 

125  00 

800  00 

125  00 

West  Salem . 

614  00 

70  20 

200  00 

25  00 

75  00 

Wood  Lawn . 

562  95 

38  70 

119  95 

60  00 

Summary . 

$  1089  00 

14634  30 

SS  1066  90 

$  3145  66 

$10621  50 

$  2675  71 

Westfield  District — 

Avena . 

60  00 

483  30 

42  00 

50  00 

38  35 

45  00 

Beecher  City . 

60  00 

440  75 

42  00 

75  00 

45  00 

Casey . 

180  00 

1300  00 

70  00 

420  00 

20  00 

530  00 

Casev  Circuit . 

100  00 

725  00 

75  00 

Clarksburg . 

75  00 

470  16 

48  00 

31  50 

20  35 

37  00 

Greenup  .  .  . 

159  23 

23  00 

Island  Grove . 

345  00 

39  00 

50  00 

15  00 

Johnstown . 

280  16 

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54  70 

30  00 

Loosootee .  ... 

100  00 

580  00 

65  00 

Martinsville . 

780  00 

50  00 

125  00 

75  00 

Marshall . 

90  00 

984  41 

34  25 

75  00 

158  85 

80  00 

Marshall  Circuit . 

400  00 

70  00 

75  00 

75  00 

Paris . 

150  00 

1004  75 

70  00 

206  21 

122  76 

182  82 

Toledo . 

100  00 

854  70 

50  15 

98  00 

587  00 

94  00 

Vermillion . 

100  00 

633  00 

62  00 

324  64 

38  00 

90  69 

Westfield . 

120  00 

1020  00 

82  00 

167  75 

161  05 

Westfield  Circuit . 

395  45 

34  00 

252  28 

72  70 

Yale . 

75  00 

680  00 

80  00 

150  00 

240  00 

105  00 

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District  Summary . 

$  1210  00 

$  11535  91 

$  962  65 

S  2155  08 

$  1225  31 

$  1668  26 

Grand  Total . 

$  3692  50 

$  39116  23 

$  3014  78 

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1  50 

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6  00 

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1  00 

1  00 

Danville  Circuit  . 

4  00 

1  00 

6  80 

11  00 

9  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Finrllav  . 

1  24 

6  00 

3  99 

1  64 

2  06 

F  i  er  . 

3  00 

6  00 

10  00 

4  00 

2  50 

5  00 

Galton  . 

2  00 

3  08 

7  00 

5  00 

T.nrii«U  Grove 

3  00 

5  03 

10  00 

4  00 

2  00 

4  00 

Da  twnnH 

4  00 

11  00 

8  00 

3  00 

Otterbein  . 

Pntnmar 

5  00 

12  00 

8  00 

3  00 

59  00 

Penfield  . 

1  00 

2  00 

8  00 

2  00 

Redmon  . 

5  00 

12  00 

8  GO 

3  00 

18  00 

Pn«<?ville  . 

3  00 

10  20 

11  00 

8  00 

1  50 

5  00 

White  Heath  . 

50 

4  10 

4  10 

1  00 

1  00 

Summary . 

44  74 

3  50 

1  00 

61  45 

145  10 

5  00 

68  99 

36  64 

125  06 

Olney  District — 

Birds  . •• . 

1  00 

5  00 

2  36 

1  00 

Bluford  . 

5  00 

10  00 

3  00 

5  00 

East  St  Louis 

2  00 

1  00 

Flora  . 

2  00 

2  45 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

3  00 

Flora  Circuit . 

1  50 

2  60 

2  50 

7  00 

5  00 

1  00 

4  00 

Lawrenceville  . 

3  00 

6  00 

4  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Mt  Vernon  . 

3  00 

4  00 

6  00 

2  00 

5  00 

New  Hebron  . 

5  00 

12  00 

12  00 

# 

8  00 

3  00 

8  00 

Oblong  . 

8  00 

5  00 

4  05 

Olney  . 

2  00 

10  00 

5  00 

2  00 

5  00 

Olnev  Circuit  . 

4  00 

3  25 

12  00 

5  50 

3  00 

6  00 

Parkersburg . 

5  00 

2  30 

20  30 

13  00 

9  00 

Robinson  . 

4  00 

3  00 

10  00 

6  00 

3  00 

7  00 

Sumner . 

5  00 

2  00 

13  00 

8  00 

4  00 

8  00 

St.  Francisville . 

6  00 

4  00 

7  21 

13  00 

9  00 

4  00 

9  00 

Vienna . 

Vergennes . 

8  00 

5  00 

3  00 

West  Salem  . 

11  00 

• 

7  00 

Wood  Lawn . 

1  00 

3  00 

2  00 

1  00 

2  00 

Summary . 

$42  50 

$11  90 

$57  71 

$151  00 

$91  SO 

$28  00 

$72  05 

Westfield  District — 

Avena . 

2  64 

5  00 

Beecher  City . 

1  00 

1  45 

7  00 

2  00 

2  00 

2  00 

Casey . 

3  00 

2  00 

1  00 

10  00 

6  00 

2  00 

31  00 

Casey  Circuit . 

3  00 

4  00 

9  00 

5  00 

2  00 

3  00 

Clarksburg . 

4  00 

2  00 

Greenup . 

1  00 

1  00 

62 

Island  Grove . 

5  00 

1  00 

Johnstown . . 

1  50 

Loogootee . 

5  00 

5  00 

Martinsville . 

7  00 

Marshall . 

2  00 

2  00 

4  14 

5  00 

3  00 

1  00 

5  00 

Marshall  Circuit . 

10  00 

2  70 

Paris . 

4  00 

3  26 

10  00 

7  00 

3  00 

7  00 

Toledo . 

2  00 

1  00 

3  85 

5  00 

3  00 

1  50' 

3  50 

Vermillion . 

4  00 

9  00 

6  00 

2  00 

7  00 

Westfield . 

5  00 

5  34 

12  00 

8  00 

4  00 

9  0Q 

Westfield  Circuit . 

1  00 

3  25 

2  00 

1  00 

1  00 

1  00 

Yale . 

4  00 

11  00 

Charleston  First . 

District  Summary . 

14  00 

5  45 

1  00 

30  48 

118  50 

3  00 

49  34 

18  50 

68  50 

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20  85 

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414  60 

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2,700 

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4 

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4 

1 

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3 

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6 

3,000 

3 

3,000 

2,900 

4 

4 

2 

3,800 

2 

4,200 

1 

1 

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3 

4,500 

1 

1 

6,000 

3 

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7,400 

2 

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1 

1 

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4 

4,700 

5 

1 

5,000 

1,400 

54 

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39 

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240,155 

FIELD  OF  LABOR 

Debt  on  Church. 

Value  of  Parson¬ 

age  and  Lot. 

Debt  on  Parson¬ 

age. 

Total. 

Net  Value. 

Months  Em¬ 

ployed. 

No.  Minutes 

Wanted. 

Danville  District — 

Ashmore 

$  164 

$  600 

$  490 

$  5.100 

$  4,446 

12 

25 

Blue  Mound  . 

2,000 

2,000 

12 

20 

Broadlands . 

1,000 

5,625 

12 

50 

Chesterville . 

1,700 

250 

3460 

3,210 

12 

35 

Danville  First . 

1,500 

11,000 

11,000 

12 

25 

Danville  Perrysville  Ave. 

500 

2,175 

1,625 

12 

15 

Danville  Circuit . 

1,820 

7,800 

5,980 

12 

20 

Findlav 

900 

3,600 

3,600 

12 

25 

Fisher . 

900 

3,400 

3,400 

12 

25 

Galton .  . 

900 

5,900 

5,900 

12 

10 

Locust  Grove 

1,600 

3,690 

3,690 

12 

50 

Oakwood . 

900 

5,000 

5,000 

12 

30 

Otterbein . 

Potomac . 

1.300 

6,000 

6,000 

12 

30 

Penfield 

2,600 

12 

30 

Red  mo  n . 

1,200 

14,000 

14,000 

12 

40 

Rossville . 

1,600 

6,325 

6,325 

11 

30 

White  Heath . 

100 

1,500 

4,900 

4,800 

12 

20 

Summary . 

2,584 

15,600 

740 

92,775 

80,976 

203 

480 

Olney  District — ■ 

Birds . 

1,200 

6,400 

6,400 

12 

40 

Bluford  . 

200 

5,965 

5,965 

4 

50 

East  St.  Louis . 

2,500 

1,200 

2,500 

1,300 

12 

10 

Flora . 

200 

1,500 

1,300 

12 

40 

Flora  Circuit . 

1,300 

4,800 

4,800 

12 

40 

Lawrenceville . 

785 

2,500 

1,200 

13,500 

11,515 

12 

50 

Mt.  Vernon.  .  . 

660 

12 

30 

New  Hebron . 

1,500 

10,000 

10,000 

12 

60 

Oblong . 

1,150 

3,300 

3,300 

12 

40 

Olney . 

3.500 

600 

8,600 

8,000 

12 

75 

Olney  Circuit . 

600 

6,000 

6,000 

12 

75 

Parkersburg . 

1,000 

7,300 

7,300 

12 

75 

Robinson . 

.  .  1,600 

6,100 

6,100 

12 

30 

Sumner . 

1,700 

5,850 

5,850 

12 

75 

St.  Francisville . 

1,200 

12,500 

12,500 

12 

40 

Vienna . 

2,300 

2,300 

12 

20 

Vergennes . 

1,000 

1,200 

5,600 

4,600 

12 

25 

West  Salem . 

271 

2,271 

2,271 

12 

50 

Wood  Lawn . 

3,700 

3,700 

12 

20 

Summary . 

2,645 

21,821 

3,000 

108,186 

103,201 

220 

835 

Westfield  District — 

Avena . 

650 

3,825 

3,825 

10 

25 

Beecher  City . 

400 

3,200 

3,200 

12 

40 

Casey . 

2,500 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

50 

Casey  Circuit . 

1,500 

700 

5,540 

4,840 

12 

40 

Clarksburg . 

*  •  •/ 

1,000 

3,500 

3,500 

12 

15 

Greenup . 

3,000 

3,000 

12 

30 

Island  Grove . 

3,000 

3,000 

12 

30 

Johnstown . 

2,900 

2,900 

12 

15 

Loogootee . 

1,800 

15 

5,600 

5,585 

12 

40 

Martinsville . 

4,200 

4,200 

12 

30 

Marshall . 

3,000 

400 

6,000 

5,600 

12 

35 

Marshall  Circuit . 

4,500 

4,500 

12 

Paris. . . 

2jL5 

1,500 

7,500 

7,285 

12 

40 

Toledo . 

976 

815 

8,215 

7,239 

12 

40 

Vermillion . 

1,300 

5,300 

5,300 

12 

38 

Westfield . 

1 ,500 

7,500 

7,500 

12 

40 

Westfield  Circuit . 

4,700 

4.700 

12 

40 

Yale . 

725 

5,725 

5,725 

12 

70 

Charleston  First . . .  .  i . 

2 

20 

Summary . 

%  1,191 

S  16,690 

$  1,115 

$  91,965 

%  88,399 

216 

638 

Grand  Total . 

6,424 

$  54,111 

$  4,855 

$  292,926 

%  272,576 

i 

639 

1953 

Conference  Proceedings 


SUMMARY  OF  STATISTICS 


Organized  churches,  154. 

Itinerants,  76;  local  preachers,  9.  Total,  85. 

Members  at  beginning  of  year,  10,864 ;  end  of  year,  10,901 ; 
gain,  37. 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  societies,  56;  members,  1,974;  Junior  C.  E.  societies, 
25;  members,  851. 

Sunday  schools,  143;  enrollment,  14,024;  teachers  and  officers, 
1,601 ;  loss  in  enrollment,  312. 

Telescopes  taken,  1,042;  gain,  62. 

Church-kouses,  147 ;  value,  $240,155. 

Parsonages,  39;  value,  $54,lTl. 

Finances — Pastors’  salaries,  $40,026.23;  Presiding  Elders’  sal¬ 
ary,  $3,014.78;  Local  Current  Expenses,  $7,587.99;  For  Church 
and  Parsonage  Building,  $13,080.83 ;  Local  Sunday  School, 
$599.29;  Home  Missions,  $750.35;  Foreign  Missions,  $786.63; 
Woman’s  Missions,  $754.47;  Church  Erection,  $188.99;  Conference 
Church  Erection,  $2,023.08 ;  Church  Erection  Special,  $533.55 ; 
Parsonage  Erection,  $22;  Sunday-School  General  Fund,  $101,24; 
Children’s  Hay  Collections,  $158.64:  Bishop’s  Salary,  $414.60; 
Preachers’  Aid,  $8 ;  Conference  Preachers’  Aid,  $242.03 ;  Bene¬ 
ficiary  Education,  $83.14;  Bonebrake  Seminary,  $265.61;  Contribu¬ 
tions  to  Colleges,  etc.,  $674.48;  Westfield  College,  $522.68;  Annual 
Conference  Expenses,  $248.85;  Bible  Cause,  $2;  Total  for  all  pur¬ 
poses,  $77,727.01. 


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2  Lower  Wabash 


17 


Conference  Proceedings 


NOTES 


The  examination  of  licentiates  occurred  on  Tuesday,  August 
20,  1912. 

Rev.  J.  B.  Norviel,  pastor  of  the  U.  B.  church,  Robinson,  Illi¬ 
nois,  preached  on  Tuesday  night. 

Rev.  J.  S.  Kendall,  General  Secretary  Christian  Stewardship, 
preached  on  Wednesday  night.  Following  Dr.  Kendall,  Rev.  L.  S. 
Woodruff,  pastor  of  the  U.  B.  church,  Stockton,  California,  ad¬ 
dressed  the  conference  on  his  work  in  Stockton  among  the  Japa¬ 
nese. 

Rev.  C.  Whitney  lectured  on  Home  Missions  on  Thursday  night. 

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Rev.  J.  M.  Phillippi,  editor  Religious  Telescope,  spoke  on  church 
extension  on  Friday  night. 

Rev.  W.  L.  Bunger,  secretary  Brotherhood  Work,  gave  an  ad¬ 
dress  on  Saturday  night. 

Introduced  to  the  Conference  were:  Rev.  C.  H.  Thrall,  pastor 
M.  E.  Church,  St.  Francisville,  Illinois;  Dr.  Abel,  M.D.,  St. 
Francisville,  Illinois;  Professor  Morgan,  Dean,  Westfield  College; 
M.  L.  Briscoe,  of  the  Executive  Committee,  Westfield  College;  Rev. 
E.  E.  Wesley,  Southern  Illinois  Conference,  M.  P.  Church;  Rev. 
A.  J.  Christy,  Northern  Illinois  Conference,  M.  P.  Church. 

Admitted  to  advisory  seats  were:  Revs.  J.  G.  Breden,  Northern 
Illinois  Conference;  H.  A.  Sechrist,  Agent,  Church  Erection  So¬ 
ciety;  J.  S.  Kendall,  General  Secretary  Christian  Stewardship; 
L.  S.  Woodruff,  California  Conference;  W.  C.  Adams,  Montana 
Mission  District;  R.  Whittaker,  Northern  Illinois  Conference; 
C.  Whitney,  Secretary  Home  Missions;  W.  R.  Funk,  Publishing 
Agent;  S.  S.  Hough,  Secretary  Foreign  Missions;  F.  E.  Brooke, 
President  Leander  Clark  College;  P.  F.  Ketring,  and  O.  O.  Inman, 
White  River  Conference;  T.  D.  Crites,  President  Campbell  Col¬ 
lege;  J.  M.  Phillippi,  Editor  Religious  Telescope;  Miss  Lizzie 
Chappelle,  Indiana  Conference;  J.  A.  White,  Indiana  Conference; 
W.  L.  Bunger,  Secretary  Brotherhood  Work;  J.  B.  Glick,  East 
Pennsylvania  Conference. 

The  following  named  absentees  sent  communications  explaining 
their  absence:  W.  O.  Haycock,  H.  A.  Lehwald,  Miss  Elizabeth 
Thompson. 


18 


Conference  Proceedings 

[Official  Record.] 


FIRST  DAY. 

The  fifty-fifth  session  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference  convened 
August  21,  1912,  at  9 :  00  a.m.,  in  the  United  Brethren  Church  of 
St.  Francisville,  Illinois. 

Devotions  were  conducted  by  Rev.  C.  A.  Hall. 

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Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews  then  addressed  the  Conference  upon  “The 
Winning  Church,”  earnestly  presenting  the  following  points:  1. 
The  winning  church  is  a  regenerate  church.  2.  The  winning  church 
is  an  evangelical  church.  3.  The  winning  church  has  a  well-es¬ 
tablished  system  of  finance.  4.  The  winning  church  is  a  social 
church.  5.  The  winning  church  must  present  appealing  objects. 
6.  The  winning  church  must  have  enthusiasm. 

After  roll  call,  six  front  seats  across  the  house  were  made 
the  bar  of  the  Conference. 

The  Bishop  asked  the  Conference  that  sometime  during  these 
sessions,  the  advisability  of  organic  union  with  the  Methodist 
Protestant  Church  be  considered. 

Rev.  C.  O.  Myers  was  appointed  reporter  for  the  St.  Francisville 
Times. 

A  paper  read,  from  Dr.  J.  P.  Landis,  of  Bonebrake  Seminary,  \vas 
referred  to  the  Committee  on  Education. 

The  inactive'  list  was  then  corrected  with  the  following  actions : 

The  secretary  was  instructed  to  write  letters  of  sympathy  to  Revs. 
J.  W.  Nye,  W.  O.  Haycock,  and  J.  Tohill,  account  of  affliction  in 
their  homes. 

The  name  of  D.  F.  Meek,  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Me¬ 
moirs.  Some  one  expressing  some  doubt  as  to  Rev.  Meek’s  decease, 
the  secretary  was  instructed  to  write  Olivet  College,  Georgetown, 
Illinois,  to  learn  the  facts  in  the  case. 

Rev.  S.  Mills,  the  Conference  octogenarian,  gave  a  few  pleasant 
reminiscences. 


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REPORT  OF  CONFERENCE  YEAR,  1911-1912. 


Beloved  brethren  allow  me  to  submit  the  following  report: 


Sermons  preached .  610 

Prayer  meetings  lead .  180 

Souls  reclaimed  and  saved . ' .  638 


Visitations . • . 1,825 

Funerals  .  1 

Marriages  .  1 

In  love  and  many  thanks  to  pastors  and  elders  for  their  kindness 
shown  me  in  the  past  year,  I  remain, 

Your  Brother  in  Christ, 

H.  A.  Lehwald,  Evang. 


Bev.  J.  W.  Holsapple  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Con¬ 
ference  Relations  for  superannuated  relation;  J.  H.  Eastin,  for 
supernumerary  relation ;  L.  M.  Cooper,  for  membership,  coming 
from  another  church. 

The  Bishop  then  read  the  following  committees  on  organization : 


Devotion. — O.  J.  Bogard,  W.  L.  Duncan,  Jesse  Litherland. 
Candidates  for  the  Ministry. — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  J.  T.  McCreery, 
E.  M.  Pierson. 

Conference  Relations. — R.  Griffin,  C.  A.  Hall,  L.  E.  Miller. 
Elders’  Orders. — S.  Mills,  B.  B.  Phelps,  H.  W.  Broadstone. 
Memoirs. — J.  F.  Fowler,  G.  W.  Reid,  G.  W.  Ball. 

Auditing  Accounts. — H.  G.  Taylor,  W.  E.  Shell,  C.  O.  Myers. 
Nominations. — F.  H.  King,  W.  R.  Muncie,  E.  E.  Bundy. 
Boundary  and  Finance. — D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Connett,  W.  L. 
Duncan,  C.  A.  Dwyer,  T.  D.  Spyker,  E.  M.  Pierson,  L.  E.  Miller, 
W.  C.  Harbert,  J.  B.  Norviel,  J.  L.  Litherland,  Ross  Langley,  M. 
O.  Cullison,  F.  D.  Fitch,  C.  C.  Hodges,  Richard  Shores. 


The  presiding  elders’  reports  were  read  and  approved  as  follows: 


REPORT  OF  DANVILLE  DISTRICT. 

The  eighteen  charges  on  this  district  were  served  by  the  pas¬ 
tors  assigned  them  by  the  Conference  a  year  ago,  except  Rossville, 
Otterbein,  and  Galton.  Rossville  and  Otterbein  were  left  without 
pastors,  to  be  supplied  by  the  presiding  elder.  I  appointed  R. 
Whitaker,  of  Southwest  Kansas  Conference,  and  a  student  in  the 
Moody  Institute,  pastor  of  Rossville,  and  Wm.  Lathrop,  a  student 
in  Westfield  College,  pastor  of  Otterbein;  he  and  the  people,  how¬ 
ever,  did  not  agree.  Later  I  appointed  R.  J.  Cox,  but  he  and  the 
people  failed  to  contract;  consequently  Otterbein  has  been  without 
a  pastor  for  the  entire  year.  Otterbein  is  a  church  located  three 


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miles  south  of  Newman,  and  is  somewhat  difficult  to  care  for, 
as  it  is  so  remote  from  other  churches;  notwithstanding:  the  fact 
of  being  without  a  pastor,  the  people  have  kept  up  a  Sunday  school, 
and  have  painted,  reroofed,  and  papered  the  church. 

Immediately  on  adjournment  of  Conference,  E.  F.  Hawley  re¬ 
signed  Galton,  and  B.  B.  Phelps  was  appointed  to  take  charge 
of  the  work. 

A  good  revival  spirit  has  prevailed  for  the  most  part  over 
the  entire  district,  there  having  been  conversions  and  accessions 
on  every  charge. 

The  report  by  charges  is  as  follows: 

Ashmore  Circuit,  Curtis  Williams,  pastor,  has  had  12  conversions 
and  15  accessions.  Two  churches  on  this  charge  have  made  prog¬ 
ress,  but  the  church  at  Ashmore,  on  account  of  embarrassing  debts 
has  not  grown.  The  pastor  failed  to  liquidate  the  debts  on  ac¬ 
count  of  conditions  over  which  he  had  no  control.  There  will  be 
a  loss  in  membership  on  account  of  a  number  of  members  going 
into  the  Charleston  organization. 

Blue  Mound  Circuit,  Arthur  Belden,  pastor.  Thirteen  conver¬ 
sions  and  six  accessions  indicate  the  result  of  his  revival  effort. 
A  Christian  Endeavor  Society  has  been  organized  at  Union  with 
seventeen  members. 

Broadlands  Circuit  has  had  a  fine  year  under  the  leadership  of 
C.  A.  Hall.  Eighty-four  conversions  and  eighty-six  accessions  to 
the  Church  indicate  the  results  of  his  revival  effort.  Electric  lights 
have  been  placed  in  two  of  the  churches  and  in  the  parsonage. 
Two  churches  and  the  parsonage  have  been  painted;  the  Long¬ 
view  church  remodeled,  and  the  three  churches  papered.  Two 
Christian  Endeavor  societies  have  been  organized  and  three  Junior 
societies. 

Chesterville,  E.  E.  Bundy,  pastor,  has  had  eighteen  conversions 
and  ten  accessions  to  the  church.  Church  work  was  very  much 
hindered  during  the  early  part  of  the  year  on  account  of  smallpox, 
the  church  being  closed  for  a  number  of  weeks.  Brother  Bundy 
has  been  faithful  and  has  worked  very  earnestly  to  build  up  the 
church,  but  has  not  fully  realized  his  expectations. 

Danville  First  Church  has  had  a  good  year.  The  pastor,  G.  W. 
Bonebrake,  was  hindered  during  the  first  part  of  the  year  on  ac¬ 
count  of  affliction,  but  rejoices  over  his  almost  complete  recovery. 
He  was  enabled  to  do  full  work  the  latter  part  of  the  year.  There 
have  been  eighteen  conversions  and  twenty-five  accessions  to  the 
church.  The  parsonage  has  been  painted  and  papered. 

Danville  Circuit,  C.  A.  Dwyer,  pastor,  had  thirty  conversions 
and  thirty-four  accessions  to  the  church.  A  Brotherhood  has  been 


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organized  at  Union  Corner,  the  first  country  brotherhood  in  the 
Conference.  The  pastor  will  present  a  good  report. 

Danville,  Perrysville  Avenue,  Sarah  Bowman,  pastor.  This  new 
mission  has  had  an  excellent  year.  There  have  been  thirty-three 
conversions  and  thirty-five  accessions  to  the  church,  doubling  the 
membership  lacking  hut  one.  There  has  been  a  growth  along  all 
lines.  A  new  furnace  has  been  placed  in  the  church  at  a  cost  of 
$125  and  paid  for. 

Findlay  Circuit,  B.  N.  Sypolt,  pastor,  has  had  a  good  year.  Al¬ 
though  greatly  hindered  in  his  work  on  account  of  serious  affliction, 
also  on  account  of  smallpox,  the  Lord  has  set  his  seal  upon  the 
pastor’s  work  in  the  salvation  of  souls  in  a  recent  service.  Twenty- 
four  have  been  converted  and  twenty-four  added  to  the  church 
during  the  year. 

Fisher  Circuit,  B.  J.  Nash,  pastor,  has  had  some  revival  influence 
on  the  charge,  resulting  in  fourteen  conversions  and  three  acces¬ 
sions.  Sister  Nash  has  done  faithful  work  and  not  without  results, 
but  she  has  not  realized  fully  her  expectations. 

Galton  Circuit.  B.  B.  Phelps  took  charge  of  the  work  some 
time  after  Conference.  He  has  worked  hard,  but  has  not  met  with 
the  response  from  the  people  that  he  should  have  received.  Brother 
Phelps  is  known  as  a  successful  and  faithful  pastor,  always  bring¬ 
ing  good  reports  to  Conference.  He  feels  that  his  year’s  work  has 
not  measured  up  with  the  past.  Conversions,  one,  accessions,  three. 

Locust  Grove.  This  is  one  of  our  best  country  churches.  Brother 
Fowler,  the  pastor,  has  had  a  good  year.  Conversions,  24;  acces¬ 
sions,  12.  I  offered  a  prize  to  the  pastor  securing  enough  Telescope 
subscriptions  to  give  him  the  largest  number  per  member.  Brother 
Fowler  secured  the  prize,  he  having  one  Telescope  for  every 
five  members. 

Oakwood  Circuit,  M.  L.  Watson,  pastor,  has  had  seven  conver¬ 
sions  and  seven  accessions.  A  new  Sunday  school  has  been  organ¬ 
ized  at  Glossbrenner.  This  has  been  a  hard  year  for  the  pastor  on 
account  of  lack  of  support.  He  was  compelled  to  do  manual 
labor  in  order  to  care  properly  for  his  family;  however,  he  did  not 
neglect  his  work.  He  drew  the  prize  for  securing  the  largest  num¬ 
ber  of  new  subscribers  for  the  Telescope. 

Pen  field  Circuit,  C.  O.  Myers,  pastor,  has  not  made  much  prog¬ 
ress  during  the  year.  There  has  been  one  conversion  and  two  acces¬ 
sions.  The  church  at  Penfield  has  been  reroofed  and  papered. 

Potomac  Circuit,  T.  D.  Spyker,  pastor.  This  veteran  pastor  has 
had  one  of  ihe  best  years  of  his  life,  and  no  man  is  more  popular 
with  his  people.  He  is  active,  up  to  date  and  studious.  Some 
younger  men  should  take  a  hint.  Conversions,  15;  accessions,  15. 
He  will  make  a  good  report. 


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Rcdmon  Circuit,  N.  ErHoyer,  pastor.  Conversions,  79 ;  acces¬ 
sions,  40.  Embarrass  church  has  been  reroofed'  and  the  Redmon 
church  lepaired  and  frescoed.  In  the  early  summer  the  Borton 
church  was  wrecked  beyond  repair  by  a  tornado.  This  was  a  great 
loss  as  they  carried  no  insurance;  the  people,  however,  with  real 
courage  and  faith  in  God,  under  the  leadership  of  the  pastor,  are 
replacing  the  church  with  a  much  better  one;  indeed  it  will  be  one 
of  the  best  churches  for  the  money,  in  the  Conference.  The  build¬ 
ing  will  be  of  brick  veneer  with  auditorium  and  Sunday-school 
room.  The  Sunday-school  room  can  be  converted  into  three  class 
rooms  by  sliding  doors.  It  has  basement  for  furnace  and  the  roof 
is  to  be  of  slate.  The  cost  will  be  between  $5,000  and  $6,000. 

Rossville  Circuit  was  left  to  be  supplied  with  a  pastor.  Brother 
Whitaker  was  secured  and  took  up  his  work  soon  after  Conference. 
He  has  rendered  good  service  and  will  submit  a  good  report.  He 
has  had  twenty-five  conversions  and  nineteen  accessions.  The  best 
thing  he  will  report  is  a  new  $10,000  church.  The  building  is  now 
in  process  of  erection.  There  will  be  a  basement  under  the  entire 
building,  with  large  auditorium  above  and  Sunday-school  room 
and  two  class  rooms,  also  pastor’s  study.  This  will  be  the  best 
church  in  the  Conference. 

White  Heath  Circuit.  D.  C.  Ade,  pastor,  has  been  compelled  to 
do  manual  labor  in  order  to  support  his  family.  This  was  due 
largely  from  the  fact  that  Galesville  church  refused  to  cooperate 
with  the  other  churches  on  the  charge.  The  pastor  however  has 
been  faithful  and  has  had, a  fair  measure  of  success.  There  have 
been  three  conversions  and  one  accession  to  the  church.  The 
White  Heath  church  has  been  reroofed  and  other  substantial  im¬ 
provements  have  been  made  to  the  church. 

Charleston,  Everett  E.  Johnson,  pastor.  This  is  a  new  enter¬ 
prise.  It  has  been  known  to  the  Conference  for  some  time  that 
there  were  a  number  of  United  Brethren  living  in  the  city,  and 
steps  were  taken  a  few  years  ago  to  enter  the  city.  A  lot  was 
purchased,  but  the  matter  was  not  pushed  and  later  the  lot  was 
sold.  I  visited  the  city  from  time  to  time  during  the  year  and 
secured  the  names  of  thirty-five  persons  who  were  or  had  been 
members  of  the  Church.  But  how  to  begin  without  money  or 
a  suitable  man  for  pastor  was  the  question.  Everett  E.  Johnson, 
who  had  been  in  the  employ  of  the  Illinois  State  Sunday-School 
Association,  indicated  his  desire  to  enter  into  the  active  ministry. 
About  this  time,  providentially  as  I  believe,  Bishop  Mathews  tarried 
in  Danville  over  night.  I  was  in  the  city,  and  learning  of  his 
presence,  took  with  me  Pastors  Bonebrake,  Dwyer,  and  Brother 
Johnson,  and  we  counciled  with  the  Bishop  relative  to  Charleston. 
He  gave  us  such  helpful  advice  and  encouragement  that  I  appointed 


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Mr.  Johnson  pastor  immediately;  his  work  to  begin  July  1.  He 
moved  to  the  city,  secured  the  county  court  rooin  and  on  the  7th,  or¬ 
ganized  a  Sunday  school  with  forty  scholars  enrolled.  On  the  21st  1 
spent  the  day  with  him  and  organized  a  church  with  thirty  mem¬ 
bers.  I  found  a  Sunday  school  with  sixty-one  enrolled  scholars, 
well  officered  and  organized,  doing  business  as  though  it  had  been 
in  operation  for  years.  During  the  week  following  a  lot  was 
purchased  for  $700  with  a  pretty  heavy  paving  tax  attached.  The 
lot  is  ideal  in  its  location,  lying  almost  between  the  court  house 
and  the  Normal,  and  one  block  from  the  street  car  line.  One 
week  ago  to-day  was  made  United  Brethren  day  for  the  city  and 
surrounding  country;  plans  having  been  made  for  the  erection 
of  a  tabernacle  on  that  day.  The  day  was  not  auspicious,  but  the 
volunteers  came  to  the  number  of  about  forty,  and  the  tabernacle 
was  erected  with  great  rejoicing  while  the  women  of  the  church 
prepared  dinner  for  the  workers  in  the  basement  of  the  Baptist 
church  that  had  been  tendered  them.  Now  they  have  a  temporary 
church  24  x  50  feet  in  which  to  worship  until  such  time  as  they 
can  erect  a  beautiful  and  substantial  church.  Surely  God  has 
owned  and  blessed  in  every  step  of  this  splendid  enterprise.  The 
Home  Missionary  Society  through  its  splendid  secretary  has 
come  to  our  rescue  by  giving  annually  $500  on  the  pastor’s  salary. 

Number  of  conversions  reported  last  year,  208 ;  this  year,  382 : 
accessions  last  year,  257 ;  this  year,  367 ;  Sunday-school  enroll¬ 
ment  last  year,  3,738;  this  year,  4,119.  Number  in  cradle  roll  last 
year,  311;  this  year,  322.  In  Home  Department  last  year,  254;  this 
year,  261.  In  adult  classes  last  year,  576;  this  year,  715.  Number 
of  Christian  Endeavor  societies  reported  last  year,  13 ;  this  year,  20. 
Junior  societies  last  year,  9.  this  year,  11.  Number  of  Telescopes 
last  year,  230;  this  year,  278.  Watchwords  last  year,  411;  this  year, 
435.  Evangels  last  year,  71;  this  year,  77. 

Mention  should  he  made  of  the  Women’s  Aid  societies,  because 
they  are  an  important  factor  in  the  work  of  the  local  church. 
There  are  sixteen  such  societies  on  the  district  with  a  membership 
of  265,  and  these  societies  have  raised  this  year,  $1,510. 

Average  salary  paid  by  the  charge  last  year,  $522.  Average 
salary  promised  this  year,  $600.  Average  salary,  including  par¬ 
sonage  rent,  appropriations,  and  presents  paid  last  year,  $667. 
Average  salary  this  year  $774.  This  will  not  quite  all  be  paid,  but 
the  average  increase  over  last  year  if  all  were  paid  would  be  $107. 
In  every  item  reported  there  is  an  increase  over  last  year. 

I  cannot  give  the  amount  of  Conference  benevolences  as  the  peo^ 
pie  still  cling  to  the  old  method  of  paying  at  the  end  of  the  year, 
notwithstanding  the  efforts  of  pastors  to  do  otherwise.  Everv 

charge  on  the  district  made  an  offering  for  Church  Erection  except 


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two.  I  cannot  give  the  amount  paid  on  Home  and  Foreign  Mis-  • 
sions. 

Assessment  for  presiding  elder's  salary,  $1,021.  Shortage  on  as¬ 
sessment,  $17.58.  Traveling  expense,  $162.42.  Net  salary,  $840. 
Miles  traveled,  7,000;  sermons  preached,  184. 

The  Lord  has  been  good  and  all  the  brethren  kind.  I  am  spe¬ 
cially  indebted  to  Brothers  Spyker,  Phelps,  Dwyer,  Bonebrake, 
and  King  for  assistance  in  holding  my  quarterly  meetings. 

J.  B.  Connett, 
Presiding  Elder. 


REPORT  OF  OLNEY  DISTRICT. 

Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews •,  and  Members  of  the  Conference. 

I  am  profoundly  thankful  to  Almighty  God  for  his  great  good¬ 
ness  to  me,  and  I  appreciate  the  hearty  cooperation  of  the  pastors 
and  the  people  during  the  conference  year.  I  hereby  submit  my 
annual  report  of  the  Olney  District. 

One  year  ago,  nineteen  men  received  their  appointments  from 
the  Stationing  Committee,  and  with  one  exception  they  have  kept 
steady  step  and  unbroken  rank  until  this  hour. 

There  was  only  one  resignation  this  year.  J.  IT.  Eastin  resigned 
Bluford  Circuit  in  March  on  account  of  poor  health  and  I  ap¬ 
pointed  Rev.  W.  O.  Albert.  Pie  took  charge  of  the  work  May  5, 
and  the  work  has  prospered.  The  people  regretted  losing  Brother 
Eastin,  but  have  found  in  Brother  Albert  a  good  preacher  and  a 
faithful  pastor. 

The  district  is  fairly  well  organized  in  the  majority  of  places. 

It  consists  of  54  appointments,  6  stations,  13  circuits,  60  church 
houses. 

We  prayed  and  planned  and  looked  forward  to  a  great  spiritual 
harvest  to  be  reaped  during  the  revival  season,  but  were  greatly 
hindered  by  the  very  stormy  winter  and  the  late  spring;  yet  there 
is  reason  to  render  thanksgiving  to  our  Heavenly  Father.  Revivals 
were  held  on  all  of  the  charges,  and  in  nearly  all  of  the  local 
churches  with  varying  results. 

Most  of  the  pastors  conducted  their  own  revivals;  a  few  were 
assisted  by  Evangelist  H.  A.  Lehwald,  of  Olney.  He  has  rendered 
faithful  and  efficient  service,  and  has  been  very  busy  nearly  all 
of  the  year,  a  man  of  God  and  a  successful  evangelist. 

About  500  were  converted  and  nearly  that  number  united  with 
our  churches.  The  banner  charge  in  revivals  and  additions  was 
Sumner.  The  next  was  Lawrenceville,  then  Flora  Station,  Flora 
Circuit,  Olney  Station,  Robinson  Station,  Olney  Circuit,  St. 
Francisville  Circuit,  Bluford  Circuit,  Vergennes  Circuit,  New 

Hebron  Circuit,  Birds  Circuit,  Vienna  Circuit,  and  Woodlawn 

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Circuit,  West  Salem  Circuit,  Parkersburg  Circuit,  Mt.  Vernon 
Station,  Oblong  Station.  I  could  not  get  reports  from  each  place, 
and  so  just  report  them  as  to  rank  as  best  I  could.  The  minutes 
will  show  the  accessions. 

Our  mission  stations,  Lawrenceville  and  Flora,  have  made  com¬ 
mendable  growth.  They  are  well  organized  and  well  manned  and 
their  reports  will  be  better  than  we  could  have  expected  in  so  short 
a  time. 

The  East  St.  Louis  Mission  has  a  superb  location  and  the  pastor 
has  been  faithful  through  the  year  in  gathering  funds.  The  bad 
weather  and  poor  crops  last  year  have  hindered  greatly  in  gathering 
funds,  but  still  we  are  thankful  to  God  and  the  people  for  the 
help  given  to  the  work. 

Enough  money  has  been  subscribed  to  pay  for  the  lots,  and  the 
work  must  go  right  onj  after  Conference.  We  expect  to  begin  the 
foundation  soon.  Brother  McCreery  and  his  family  deserve  great 
credit  for  their  faithful  work,  for  in  such  a  place  it  requires  great 
grace,  the  red  blood  of  human  sacrifice,  and  the  complete  coopera¬ 
tion  of  all  concerned. 

Mt.  Vernon  Mission  is  just  where  it  was  last  year  as  to  building. 
It  has  gathered  a  little  in  the  way  of  funds,  and  has  increased 
some  in  membership,  and  the  pastor  has  done  some  hard  work,  and 
his  preaching  has  been  highly  appreciated  by  the  people.  The  pro¬ 
posed  church  has  a  fine  location.  A  mile  square  of , the  city's  busy 
people  are  with  only  this  church.  Three  thousand  people  in  this  sec¬ 
tion  and  the  rest  of  the  city  just  wait  and  watch  to  see  what 
we  are  going  to  do.  If  we  don’t  build  the  church  in  the  next 
twelve  months,  we  are  done  forever  in  that  city. 

The  class  for  the  most  part  are  poor  and  the  Conference  must 
in  some  way  take  hold  of  it,  if  we  are  to  save  the  day.  The  pastor 
must  have  funds.  The  congregation  must  have  this  church  built 
before  the  people  there  will  come  to  its  rescue.  I  believe  they 
would  come  to  our  help,  if  only  they  could  see  the  church  house 
going  up,  as  we  have  started  it.  A  very  helpful  Y.  P.  C.  E.  con¬ 
vention  was  held  at  Lawrenceville,  July  24,  25,  26.  It  was  one 
of  the  best  in  our  history  and  was  largely  attended  by  the  ministers, 
except  a  few  wTho  don’t  go  to  such  places  and  could. 

Pev.  W.  L.  Bunger  and  returned  missionary  Rev.  Mr.  Davis 
added  much  interest  to  the  already  splendid  program.  Sunny 
Jim — the  pastor — and  his  loyal  people  were  equal  for  the  task 
assigned  them — that  of  feeding  the  multitudes.  The  sunrise 
prayer  meeting  was  attended  by  seventy-five  of  the  Endeavorers. 
Rev.  Mr.  McCreery  led  the  meeting.  It  was  a  time  of  refreshing 
and  will  long  be  remembered,  for  the  Lord  was  certainly  in  that 
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BUILDINGS  AND  IMPROVEMENTS. 

The  church  house  at  Bluford,  Illinois,  under  the  direction  of 
John  H.  Eastin  and  his  loyal  people,  was  repaired  and  a  large 
Sunday-school  room  added.  With  other  improvements  it  is  ijrac- 
tically  a  new  church  house.  It  was  reopened  and  dedicated,  Novem¬ 
ber  27,  by  our  worthy  and  honored  Bishop  G.  M.  Mathews,  in  the 
presence  of  a  well-filled  house.  The  sermon  and  services  were  cer¬ 
tainly  inspirational.  $800  was  needed  and  the  offering  amounted 
to  $1,040. 

•  The  people  at  Hallidaboro,  Illinois,  under  the  efficient  labors 
of  Rev.  G.  W.  Ball,  are  now  completing  a  beautiful  and  commodi¬ 
ous  church  house,  which  will  cost  at  least  $2,000.  The  ground  and  a 
part  of  the  funds  were  donated  by  the  coal  company.  The  man¬ 
agement  of  the  mines  is  greatly  interested  in  the  new  enterprise. 
It  will  be  ready  for  dedication  some  time  in  September.  These 
miners  are  English,  German,  and  American,  and  are  a  whole-heart¬ 
ed  and  energetic  people. 

A  new  parsonage  at  Olney,  Illinois,  under  the  direction  of  Rev. 
R.  Griffin  and  his  people  was  dedicated  by  the  writer  in  November 
last.  It  is  a  nine-room  house.  Its  improvements  are  all  modern  and 
is  said  to  be  the  best  parsonage  in  the  Conference.  It  cost  $2,000, 
and  with  the  ground  is  valued  at  $3,500.  Rev.  C.  S.  Parker 
preached  the  dedicatory  sermon  and  brought  up  the  finances  in 
good  subscriptions.  Only  $600  is  unpaid  and  that  is  provided  for. 
The  pastor  and  family  say  it  is  a  great  joy  to  live  in  such  a  par¬ 
sonage.  The  members  of  the  Lades’  Aid  are  greatly  pleased  for 
they  are  putting  $1,000  into  the  building. 

The  Lawrenceville  pastor  and  his  people  built  a  beautiful  eight- 
room  parsonage.  The  splendid  carpenters  belonging  to  that  church 
did  the  work  gratis,  or  donated  it,  and  the  church  furnished  the 
material.  It  is  well  worth  $2,500;  and  yet  in  the  way  they  got  it, 
it  only  leaves  them  to  be  out  in  cash  $1,200.  It  was  a  great  opportun¬ 
ity  and  they  could  not  afford  to  let  it  pass  without  notice.  The 
writer  dedicated  it;  after  the  service  at  the  church  the  congrega¬ 
tion  marched  in  a  body  to  the  parsonage.  Speeches  were  made  and 
all  are  happy  in  such  an  achievement. 

Rev.  T.  H.  Decker  and  his  people  on  Flora  Circuit  purchased  a 
parsonage  near  Harmony  church.  It  is  a  four-room  cottage, 
well  built  of  the  best  material.  With  it  are  two  acres  of  ground, 
well  fenced  off  in  lots.  It  has  a  splendid  barn  and  other  buildings. 
It  cost  about  $1,100,  but  is  well  worth  $1,500.  The  writer  dedicated 
it  in  June  and  the  people  are  delighted  with  the  thought  of  having 
a  home  for  the  pastor.  Most  of  the  money  has  been  paid  and  the 
rest  provided  for  on  good  subscription. 

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The  Vergennes  pastor  and  people  have  this  year  repaired  and 
remodeled  the  parsonage  at  a  cost  of  $150  or  $200.  The  parsonage 
at  Parkersburg  has  been  repaired,  also  a  new  barn  built,  and 
other  improvements  made  on  the  church  property  on  the  charge. 
Pastor  Glad  well  believes  in  up-to-date  house  cleaning  and  house 
keeping  for  the  Lord.  This  is  in  evidence  all  over  the  charge. 

The  Sumner  parsonage  has  been  repaired,  painted,  and  papered ; 
and  also,  a  new  barn  built,  all  of  which  has  cost  over  $200. 

Rev.  S.  O.  Stoltz  and  his  people  remodeled  and  added  two  rooms 
to  the  parsonage  at  New  Hebron,  Illinois.  It  was  dedicated  last 
Thursday  by  Rev.  J.  B.  Norviel.  It  cost  $800. 

Where  there  was  need,  the  most  of  the  church  and  parsonage 
buildings  have  been  repaired,  papered,  and  painted.  Several  light¬ 
ing  plants  have  been  put  in,  and  nearly  all  of  these  properties  are 
insured. 

The  parsonage  at  Bluford  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  March. 
There  was  no  insurance  on  it.  The  people  think  they  will  build  a 
new  parsonage  next  year.  They  are  hopeful  and  want  to  go  forward 
in  the  Master’s  work. 

The  church  house  at  Parkersburg  was  struck  by  lightning 
recently.  The  cupola  was  destroyed  and  there  are  other  damages, 
but  the  people  are  laying  plans  to  repair  the  house  at  once,  and 
the  money  is  now  being  raised. 

SALARIES. 

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The  pastors  have  tried  to  arouse  the  people  to  more  liberal  and 
systematic  giving.  It  has  only  succeeded  in  a  few  places  to  our 

sorrow.  I  cannot  give  the  figures  as  to  salary,  for  I  could  not  get 

a  full  report,  as  considerable  of  the  money  came  in  too  late  for 
my  report. 

The  majority  of  the  charges  will  report  full,  or  nearly  so,  on 
pastors  salary.  A  few  will  have  large  deficits  as  judged  at  last 

report.  Nearly  all  of  the  salaries  are  too  small,  in  this  time  of 

high  price  of  living.  Some  are  tempted  to  go  into  debt  and  can 
hardly  escape  it  and  live.  Some  of  the  causes  are  poor  crops,  the 
old  method  of  financing  the  church,  irresponsive  stewards,  lack  of 
proper  visiting  among  the  people,  on  the  part  of  some  pastors.  I 
know  of  homes  where  no  pastor  has  visited  for  five  years,  and  they 
are  United  Brethren  and  support  the  church  with  their  money. 
I  mention  no  names;  but,  brethren,  these  things  ought  not  to  be. 
Most  of  the  churches  demand  strong  preachers,  but  are  only 
willing  to  pay  the  smallest  salaries  possible.  This  is  very  unreason¬ 
able  on  the  part  of  otherwise  good  and  intelligent  people  to  say 
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BENEVOLENCES. 

What  has  been  said  about  pastor’s  salary  can  be  said  about 
the  benevolences.  I  cannot  report  the  figures,  most  of  them  came 
too  late  for  my  report.  The  pastors  and  myself  have  tried,  as 
best  we  could,  to  arouse  the  congregations  to  the  real  spirit  of 
benevolence. 

This  has  been  done  in  the  pulpit,  by  letter,  and  through  the 
Telescope. 

The  offerings  for  Home  and  Foreign  Missions  will,  I  fear,  be 
less  than  last  year.  There  seems  to  be  no  full  vision  as  to  the 
importance  of  these  interests  which  are  paramount  to  everything 
else  in  the  work  of  the  kingdom. 

Progressives  in  church  work  have  paid  well,  non-progressives 
have  paid  little  or  nothing.  The  Lord  increase  the  progressive  party 
in  our  Church.  Most  of  the  charges  will  report  full,  or  nearly 
so,  on  the  chart  of  assessments.  Our  needs  are  greater  than  ever 
before  in  our  history  as  a  Conference. 

BOUNDARIES. 

It  is  my  commendation  that  the  following  changes  should  be 
made  for  the  common  good  of  all  concerned.  That  these  churches 
could  be  served  to  a  better  advantage  than  now,  is  possible.  Some 
charges  are  too  large  and  scattered. 

I  recommend  that  Centenary  on  Sumner  Circuit  be  detached  and 
attached  elsewhere  if  possible.  That  Seminary  be  detached  from 
Olney  Circuit  and  placed  on  Parkersburg  Circuit.  That  U.  P>. 
church  be  detached  from  Parkersburg  Circuit,  and  also  that  Otter- 
bein  be  detached  from  Parkersburg,  and  possibly  attached  with 
Centenary  and  some  other  church,  and  these  form  a  new  charge. 
That  the  $150  appropriation  on  Woodlawn  Circuit  be  given  Wood- 
lawn  church,  this  with  the  $250  the  church  can  pay,  would  make  a 
salary  of  $400.  The  arrangement  now  gives  the  railroad  the  $150. 
Then  other  preaching  points  can  be  found  near,  and  in  a  short  time 
we  can  have  a  self-supporting  circuit.  Then,  if  possible,  appro¬ 
priate  something  for  Delhi  and  serve  it  with  a  pastor  who  can 
give  only  a  part  of  his  time.  I  have  such  a  pastor  in  mind.  Then 
there  are  places  near  this  church,  which  can  be  so  handled  that  we 
can  soon  have  a  self-supporting  circuit.  This  I  believe  would  be 
a  fine  bit  of  rural  expansion  of  the  kingdom.  It  has  long  been 
thought  that  Bluford  Circuit  is  too  scattered  for  one  man  to 
successfully  manage  the  work. 

It  seems  to  me  that  this  circuit  ought  to  be  divided.  Bluford 
and  Oakdale  form  one  charge.  Laird,  Nebo,  and  Oak  Hill  form 
one  charge.  The  first  of  these  charges  could  pay  $500  and  house 
rent.  The  last  named  charge  could  only  pay  at  the  outside,  $300 


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and  rent  for  house.  If  St.  Francisville  should  become  a  station, 
then  other  changes  will  have  to  be  considered  and  possibly  a  new 
circuit  formed. 


MY  WORK  ON  THE  DISTRICT. 


Eighty  quarterly  meetings  have  been  conducted  on  the  district. 

I  have  held  these  in  person,  except  seven.  These  were  held  by 
the  following  brethren :  Revs.  Harbert,  O.  J.  Bogard,  McCreery, 
Griffin,  Eisher,  Mclver,  and  Norviel.  I  certainly  appreciate  the 
splendid  services  of  these  brethren,  for  they  served  well  in  every 
place. 

I  have  preached  226  times  on  the  district,  made  600  calls  and 
visits,  spent  on  an  average  of  four  days  each  week  out  in  the  field. 
I  married  eight  couples,  preached  two  funerals,  and  attended  one. 
I  dedicated  three  parsonages  and  helped  dedicate  one  church  house. 
I  secured  the  services  of  Bev.  J.  B.  Norviel  in  the  dedication  of 
the  parsonage  at  Hew  Hebron,  and  I  appreciate  his  kindness,  and 
that  of  the  pastor  for  taking  my  place  in  such  a  busy  time  at  the 
close  of  the  conference  year.  I  have  walked  210  miles,  traveled  on 
the  train  4,500  miles,  in  the  buggy  675  miles,  in  the  auto  100  miles, 
on  horseback  10  miles,  farm  wagon  12  miles,  spring  wagon  16 
miles,  sleigh  10  miles.  I  don’t  know  how  many  miles  I  ran,  and 
at  times  I  seemed  compelled  to  fly  to  catch  trains  and  only  missed 
one.  Total  miles  traveled,  5,543. 

I  received  on  salary  assessed .  $  1,063.40 


Received  during  Conference . 

Presents,  marriages,  and  funeral  fees 


My  traveling  expenses  have  been . $  100.00 

Stationery  .  45.00 

Personal  expenses — hotels,  etc .  22.00 

The  Lord’s  tithe .  100.00 

My  house  rent .  150.00 


83 . 00 


Total  expenses  for  the  year . $ 

Total  salary . 

And  presents . 


327.00  - 

$  1,146.40 
9.15 


Total  . .  $  1,155.55 

Total  expenses  for  the  year .  327.00 


* 

Net  salary  for  year,  including  presents  $  828.55 


It  has  by  far  been  the  most  strenuous  and  exacting  year  of  my 
seventeen  years  in  the  ministry.  I  was  sick  with  la  grippe  five 
weeks,  but  continued  my  work  until  I  had  to  go  to  bed  for  two 
weeks,  with  bronchitis  just  escaping  typhoid  fever.  I  was  at  differ- 


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ent  times  storm  bound,  mud  bound,  ice  bound,  and  snow  bound ;  but 
I  went  joyfully  onward  with  the  work  enjoying  the  rich  blessing 
of  God.  This  showing  of  the  work  is  not  as  satisfactory  as  we  had 
hoped  it  might  be,  but  we  take  courage  and  thank  God  for  his 
favors. 

Assessments  all  in  but  $17. 

Whatever  has  been  achieved  has  been  due  to  the  leadership  of 
the  Holy  Spirit  and  the  faithfulness  of  the  pastors  and  their  loyal 
people.  They  under  God  are  credited  with  all  the  victories  won. 
May  God  bless  them  all  and  prosper  them  more  and  more  in  their 
holy  work. 

I  have  not  knowingly  avoided  any  leadership  or  responsibility 
connected  with  my  sacred,  yet  delicate  and  responsible  office. 

I  have  not  intentionally  made  any  trouble  for  any  pastor,  or 
withheld  a  word  that  would  cheer  his  heart  or  strengthen  his  arm 
against  sin  and  Satan.  Sweet  and  most  sacred  have  been  my  asso¬ 
ciations  with  the  pastors  and  their  families  on  the  district.  I 
shall  cherish  and  keep  fresh  and  green  in  memory’s  urn  these 
pleasant  associations  which  are  a  kin  to  heaven.  I  am  very  con¬ 
scious  of  my  infirmities,  and  know  that  my  services  have  been 
all  too  imperfect,  but  I  leave  that  with  my  merciful  Heavenly 
Father  and  to  the  judgment  of  my  brethren. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

W.  L.  Duncan, 

Presiding  Elder,  Olney  District. 

REPORT  OF  WESTFIELD  DISTRICT. 

There  are,  on  Westfield  District,  3  stations,  2  mission  stations, 
1  mission  circuit,  and  12  circuits — 18  charges.  There  are  12  par¬ 
sonages,  56  church  houses,  and  57  organized  classes.  There  are 
49  Sunday  schools,  one  (Paris)  using  graded  lessons,  3  brother¬ 
hoods,  24  adult  Bible  classes,  32  organized  classes,  8  home  depart¬ 
ments,  10  cradle  rolls,  10  Y.  P.  C.  E.  IT.  societies,  4  Junior,  and  2 
Intermediate  societies.  There  are  7  W.  M.  A.  and  12  Ladies’ 
Aid  societies. 

With  a  single  exception,  all  pastors  appointed  by  the  Confer¬ 
ence  served  their  charges  throughout  the  year.  Rev.  C.  E.  Hogue 
resigned  Avena  Circuit  July  1,  and  took* work  in  our  Dakota-Mon- 
tana  mission  field,  since  which  time,  Avena  charge  has  been  with¬ 
out  a  pastor. 

Though  the  pastor  on  the  Martinsville  charge  was  diligent  and 
faithful  in  his  work,  and  otherwise  successful,  our  plan  to  organ¬ 
ize  and  build  in  Martinsville  failed  and  the  two  classes  comprising 
that  charge  will  have  to  be  merged  with  some  other. 


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While  there  was  a  gratifying  spirit  of  revival  pervading  the  dis¬ 
trict,  resulting  in  about  400  conversions  and  350  accessions,  owing 
to  large  depletions  on  some  charges  in  correcting  the  records,  there 
will  be  a  slight  increase  in  membership.  One  of  the  evils  of  ap¬ 
portioning  finances  on  a  basis  of  membership  is  that,  because  of  it, 
brethren  will  insist  on  the  elimination  of  unproductive  members; 
and,  in  many  cases,  instead  of  an  earnest,  patient  endeavor  to  lead 
delinquents  into  a  better  way,  they  are  summarily  dropped. 

There  was  a  net  increase  in  salaries  promised  pastors,  over  last 
year,  of  $510.  Casey  paid,  this  year,  in  salary*  $1,000  and  par¬ 
sonage.  Four  charges  pay  from  $700  to  $800  and  parsonage.  Six 
contracted  to  pay  from  $500  to  $600,  two  from  $400  to  $500,  and 
five,  less  than  $400.  Eight  charges  will  report  salaries  full,  five 
nearly  full  and  five — the  weaker  ones — will  report  glaring  deficits. 
How  to  manage  these  weaker  charges  is  a  problem  that  still  con¬ 
fronts  us.  The  foregoing  statement  is,  in  part,  and  only  in  part, 
an  indication  of  what  will  be  reported  on  other  financial  interests. 

Thirteen  pastors  took  the  Easter  collection,  and  report  $66.98. 
Twelve  pastors  report  on  Children’s  Hay  collection,  $40.45. 

Eleven  pastors  report  themselves  as  tithers,  and,  among  the 
membership  of  the  district,  there  are  reported  126  tithers,  eighty 
of  whom  are  in  the  Paris  congregation,  sixty-nine  of  whom  are  or¬ 
ganized  under  the  name,,  “The  Store-house  League.”  Needless  to 
say,  the  Paris  people,  under  the  leadership  of  their  pastor,  are  set¬ 
ting  the  pace  for  the  solution  of  the  vexing  financial  problem. 
But  six  congregations  are  using  the  budget  plafi,  more  or  less 
effectively.  The  greatest  hindrance  to  the  successful  working  of 
the  plan  where  undertaken  is  found  to  be  a  lack  of  dealing  properly 
with  those  who  fail,  or  refuse  to  pledge. 

Peports  will  show  some  increase  in  Telescopes,  Watchwords, 
Evangels,  and  Sunday-school  literature. 

Pepairs  and  improvements  on  churches  and  parsonages  have 
been  made  aggregating  a  cost  of  $624.  Toledo  paid  $565  and  Paris 
$500  on  church  debt,  leaving  the  former  owing  $935,  the  latter 
$200.  There  is  an  indebtedness  on  the  Casey  Circuit  parsonage 
of  $700.  Marshall  paid  $135  this  year  on  parsonage,  leaving  an  in¬ 
debtedness  of  $400. 

The  following  were  granted  quarterly  conference  license  to 
preach:  J.  A.  Norman  and  W.  M.  Merrill,  of  Paris;  D.  I.  Morgan, 
of  Martinsville,  and  F.  A.  Poberts,  of  Yale. 

It  is  recommended  that  the  abandoned  church  houses,  Whitesell, 
north  of  Paris,  and  Licking,  west  of  Annapolis,  he  sold  by  the 
Conference. 

Conscious  of  errors  in  judgment  and  imperfections  in  service; 
grateful  to  God  for  health  of  family  and  self,  and  for  the  compara- 


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tive  release  of  pastors,  their  families,  and  their  people  from  sick¬ 
ness  and  death,  and  with  renewed  gratitude  to  pastors  and  their 
people  for  kindness  shown,  I  respectfully  submit  this,  my  fifteenth 
annual  report. 

D.  R.  Seneff. 

The  church  and  parsonage  building  trustees  were  instructed  to 
sell  the  Metropolis  parsonage. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  D.  R.  Seneff. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION— FIRST  DAY— 1:30  P.M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  Rev.  J.  G.  Breden. 

Rev.  B.  C.  Peters  was  appointed  to  conduct  the  singing  during 
devotional  services  at  opening  of  day  sessions. 

The  report  on  church  erection  was  read  and  approved  as  follows : 

CHURCH  ERECTION. 

In  Exodus  25 :  1-8,  we  read  of  God’s  first  church  building,  erect¬ 
ed  for  the  benefit  of  Israel.  “And  Jehovah  spake  unto  Moses,  say¬ 
ing,  Speak  unto  the  children  of  Israel,  that  they  take  for  me  an 
offering,  of  every  man  whose  heart  maketh  him  willing,  ye  shall 
take  my  offering.  And  this  is  the  offering  which  ye  shall  take  of 
them,  gold,  and  silver,  and  brass,  and  blue,  and  purple,  and  scarlet, 
and  fine  linen,  and  goat’s  hair,  *  *  *  *  And  let  them  make 

me  a  sanctuary,  that  I  may  dwell  among  them.” 

The  specific  benefit  of  church  erection  is  plainly  seen  when  we 
consider  the  divine  purpose;  namely,  “A  place  in  which  God  may 
dwell  among  his  people.” 

David  had  a  word  of  praise  for  the  house  of  God,  as  expressed 
when  he  said,  “I  was  glad  when  they  said  unto  me,  Let  us  go  into 
the  house  of  the  Lord.”  And  again  he  said,  “I  would  rather  he  a 
doorkeeper  in  the  house  of  my  God,  than  to  dwell  in  the  tents  of 
wickedness.” 

As  we  read  in  the  tenth  chapter  of  John’s  Gospel,  we  infer  that, 
as  the  shepherd’s  fold  was  to  the  sheep,  so  is  the  house  of  the  Lord 
to  his  flock. 

Doubtless  none  but  those  who  have  been  assisted  by  the  Church 
Erection  Society,  can  fully  appreciate  the  marvelous  good  the 
General  Board  is  doing. 

But  most  assuredly  we,  who  observe  the  many  struggling  congre¬ 
gations  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference,  that  have  been  placed  on 
their  feet,  and  are  now  strong  and  growing  classes,  that  would 

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have  been  otherwise  weak,  and  possibly  not  existing  to-day,  had 
they  not  been  helped  by  the  Church  Erection  Society. 

And  at  this  particular  time  our  eyes  are  turned  toward  East 
St.  Louis,  Illinois,  an  enterprise,  which  is  being  projected  iu  part, 
by  the  General  Board,  of  which  Dr.  H.  S.  Gabel  is  efficient 
secretary,  whose  interest  we  highly  appreciate  as  manifest  in  our 
church  there. 

It  is  very  evident  that  we  are  no  longer  a  rural  church.  The 
center  of  population  is  the  city,  and  this  alone  demands  of  us  a  city 
church,  that  we  might  do  our  part  in  evangelizing  the  world. 

It  is  an  undeniable  fact  that  commercialism,  present-day  cor¬ 
rupt  politics,  financial  craze,  the  white  slave  traffic,  the  liquor 
traffic,  and  the  modern  social  disorder,  are  incompetent  to  con¬ 
serve  the  spiritual  resources. 

Then  it  devolves  upon  the  Church  of  Christ  to  provide  for  the 
needs  of  the  hungry  masses.  The  Church  Erection  Society  does 
not  claim  to  be  able  to  do  this  alone,  but  it  is  able  to>  do  its  large 
share  in  this  eternal  task. 

This  is  a  strategic  age,  men  are  launching  big  enterprises,  the 
world  about  us  is  demonstrating  its  power  to  do  things,  while  we  do 
not  think  the4  Church  ought  expect  the  world  to  set  the  pace  for 
her,  yet  we  do  think  the  Church  should  be  able  to  cope  with,  and  in 
fact,  exceed  the  world  in  doing  things,  because  she  is  doing  things 
for  eternity,  and  the  salvation  of  the  world  depends  on  the  Church 
of  the  living  Christ. 

A  commendable  church  building*  with  its  spire  pointing  sky¬ 
ward,  its  musical  chimes  pealing  outward,  to  the  common  observer, 
will  bring  to  bear  upon  all  forms  of  evil  an  influence  that  will 
help  to  project  the  much  needed  religious  reformation. 

Church  erection  would  say,  We  do  not  need  more  money,  we  have 
that;  we  do  not  need  more  men,  we  have  them;  we  do  not  need 
knowledge,  we  have  that;  we  do  not  need  more  opportunity,  we 
have  plenty  of  that;  but  we  do  need  more  and  better  churches,  in 
centers  of  the  worst  forms  of  evil. 

We  have  what  might  be  called  “church  pride’'  and  when  we  look 
about  and  see  other  churches  making  great  strides  forward,  in 
the  way  of  entering  cities,  growing  in  great  numbers,  making  a 
world-wide  reputation  as  a  great  and  active  church,  making  an 
everlasting  record  in  heaven  as  a  church  doing  its  part  in  saving 
lost  men,  then  it  is  that  we  say  from  the  deep  of  our  soul,  let  us 
lengthen  our  cords  and  strengthen  our  stakes  and  thus  build  more 
houses  where  God  many  meet  his  people. 

Therefore,  be  it  resolved  1.  That  we  appreciate  the  demand  for 
more  and  better  church  houses  in  the  denomination. 


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2.  That  we  most  heartily  commend  the  work  of  church  erection 
as  managed  by  our  efficient  secretary,  Doctor  Gabel;  and  we 
pledge  him  our  support  in  his  efforts  to  increase  the  funds  of  the 
society. 

3.  That  we  as  pastors  inform  our  people  of  the  work  and  needs 
of  the  society,  and  assist  the  secretary  wherever  possible  to  secure 
funds  for  church  erection. 

4.  That  we  make  an  earnest  effort  to  secure  an  average  of  ten 
cents  per  member  for  church  erection,  which  shall  include  both 
the  general  and  our  Conference  work.  And  that  at  Easter  time, 
we  call  into  requisition  our  Sunday  school  and  Young  People’s 
societies,  with  the  effort  in  our  congregations  to  reach  said  amount. 

5.  That  we  call  on  our  Ladies’  Aid  societies  to  make  contribu¬ 
tions  to  our  parsonage  fund,  which  amount  shall  be  sent  to  the 
general  secretary,  at  Dayton,  Ohio. 

6.  Resolved l,  That  it  is  the  sense  of  this  annual  Conference, 
that  all  churches  under  its  jurisdiction  having  loans  from  the 
Church  Erection  Society,  shall  do  their  utmost  in  honoring  their 
contracts  with  said  society. 

We  dare  not  embarrass  the  work  of  church  erection  by  allowing 
our  churches  with  loans  to  become  delinquent  in  their  payments. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

O.  J.  Bogard, 

Committee. 

•  %  / 

Pending  adoption  of  above  paper,  Rev.  LI.  A.  Sechrist,  agent  of 
the  Church  Erection  Society,  spoke  upon  the  paper,  also  Rev.  J.  B. 
Connett.  , 

The  report  of  Committee  on  Education  was  read. 

It  was  moved  that  the  paper  be  approved  with  the  understanding 
that  the  resolutions  concerning  Westfield  College  be  referred  to  the 
committee  of  seven,  mentioned  in  the  paper. 

Professor  Morgan,  Dean  of  Westfield  College,  spoke  earnestly 
upon  the  paper. 

Rev.  F.  II.  King  then  read  a  paper  prepared  by  the  Board  of 
Commerce,  of  Paris,  Illinois,  offering  a  site  and  money  for  a 
college.  i 

M.  L.  Briscoe,  member  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  Westfield 
College,  was  introduced  to  the  Conference  and  spoke  upon  the 
interest  of  Westfield  College. 

Owing  to  some  confusion  upon  the  above  papers,  the  whole 
question  was  referred  to  a  committee  of  nine  persons  appointed  by 


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the  chairman.  The  committee  is:  D.  R.  Seneff,  J.  B.  Connett, 
V\7.  L.  Duncan,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  F.  H.  King,  J.  M.  England,  C. 
E.  Bigelow,  L.  IT.  Cooley,  E.  M.  Pierson. 

The  report  of  the  Committee  on  Christian  Stewardship  was  read 
and  approved.  Pending  approval,  Rev.  J.  S.  Kendall,  general 
secretary  of  Christian  Stewardship  spoke  upon  the  subject. 

CHRISTIAN  STEWARDSHIP. 

At  first  the  subject  before  us  seems  to  stand  in  an  isolated  re¬ 
lation  to  other  subjects  of  Christian  activities,  but  by  a  more  care¬ 
ful  study,  we  find  in  the  place  of  being  isolated,  it  is  very  closely 
related  to  every  Christian  grace. 

In  the  Old  Testament  there  were  two  principles  of  tithing  set 
forth.  In  the  middle  books  of  the  Penteteuch  we  have  a  tithe  as 
a  tax,  going  to  the  Levites,  they  in  turn  were  to  tithe  this  and 
give  it  to  the  support  of  the  priest.  Here  is  where  many  err  in  their 
study  of  the  subject  of  tithing. 

The  Deuteronomic  tithe  Dent  was  of  quite  another  sort. 
Deuteronomy  14:22-27  enjoins  that  the  tenth  of  the  corn,  wine, 
and  oil,  shall  be  brought,  either  in  kind,  or  if  the  distance  is  too 
far,  in  money,  to  the  sanctuary,  and  there  used  for  a  feast  of  re¬ 
joicing. 

This  latter  sense  of  the  tithe  was  in  no  sense  a  tax,  but  springing 
from  a  heart  of  gratitude  for  the  beneficence  of  God.  We  notice 
in  Deuteronomy  24 :  13  that  the  tithe  had  a  very  peculiar  mean¬ 
ing,  that  of  a  sacrifice  prayer,  as  prayer  was  to  be  uttered  after 
the  tithing  of  the  third  year.  This  was  the  tithe  Amos  refers  to 
in  chapter  4 :  4.  This  is  also  the  spirit  in  which  Abraham  paid  the 
tithe  to  Melchizedek. 

We  learn  three  things  from  this  last  principle  set  forth : 

Eirst.  That  a  man  who  withholds  from  God  has  not  come  to  a 
place  of  perfect  understanding  of  the  deep  significance  of  God  and 
his  relation  to  the  universe,  and  especially  man. 

Second.  The  reason  that  men  are  not  carrying  out  the  great 
commission  of  the  Infinite  when  he  said,  “Go  ye,”  is  because  they 
are  robbing  God.  You  say,  “Harsh  words.”  Yes,  I  grant  that 
is  true,  but, my  brother,  look  at  the  great  truth  that  there  are  more 
heathen  children  born  each  day  than  we  are  saving  by  all  our  com¬ 
bined  efforts.  If  we  would  bring  our  gifts  of  thanksgiving,  God 
would  honor  our  labors,  in  a  hundredfold  increase. 

Third.  There  is  no  one  that  deplores  the  fact  of  shortage  in  ihe 
ministry  more  than  I  do.  Yet,  I  do  not  agree  with  many  writers  on 
this  subject.  It  is  not  small  salaries,  hard  work,  or  lack  of  appre¬ 
ciation  of  the  public,  but  a  lack  of  meeting  our  obligation  to  God. 

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If  our  Church  would  bring1  the  tithe  to  God  for  ten  years,  instead 
of  a  dozen  or  fifteen  graduates  from  our  Seminary  every  year,  we 
would  have  enough  to  fill  a  Conference  like  this.  If  we  pay  God, 
he  will  open  the  windows  of  heaven,  and  all  that  means  this  poor 
heart  of  mine  cannot  measure.  Our  prayers  come  after  our  giving, 
so  if  this  be  true,  he  will  hear  the  church  that  brings  the  tithe. 

We  deplore  the  fact  of  our  failure  in  the  past,  but  thank  our 
Father  that  he  is  leading  us  from  the  one  sin  of  robbery. 

We  hold  the  key  to  the  situation.  Churches  will  be  largely  what 
we  make  them.  A  church  seldom  rises  above  the  standard  fixed 
by  its  leader.  If  our  pastors  will  give  the  Church  the  necessary 
training  in  stewardship  and  system  of  finance,  they  will  render  a 
great  service  in  working  out  the  financial  problems  of  the  Church. 
To  secure  permanency  and  large  results  for  the  future,  this  educa¬ 
tion  should  begin  in  the  Sunday  school  and  Young  People’s  so¬ 
cieties  and  continue  through  every  department  of  the  church  life. 

Encouraged  by  the  progress  made  during  the  past  three  years 
in  our  local  church  finances,  your  committee  would  recommend: 

First.  That  pastors  see  that  a  comprehensive,  financial  plan 
and  policy  be  adopted  covering  the  entire  financial  obligations  of 
the  church  for  current  expenses  and  benevolences,  and  that  a 
thoroughly  efficient  organization  be  effected  to  carry  out  this  plan. 

Second.  That  we  urge  the  adoption  of  the  double  budget  sys¬ 
tem  in  all  our  churches,  one  for  current  expense  and  another  for 
the  benevolent  causes,  and  that  the  presiding  elder  in  cooperation 
with  pastors  present  this  system  in  an  intelligent,  comprehensible 
manner  to  all  our  churches  that  have  not  yet  adopted  #it. 

Third.  We  are  profoundly  grateful  to  the  growing  interest  that 
our  people  have  in  a  better  support  for  their  ministry,  and  that 
we  continue  to  emphasize  this  important  matter  until  the  minimum 
salary  is  such  that  it  assures  every  pastor  a  comfortable  living. 

Fourth.  We  believe  the  tithe  principle  to  be  the  Bible  method 
of  church  support,  and  urge  upon  our  pastors  the  importance  of 
emphasizing  this  truth,  not  only  for  the  good  that  will  come 
financially,  but  spiritually  as  well,  for  God’s  promises  for  larger 
blessings  in  things  spiritual  as  well  as  temporal  are  contingent  on 
meeting  conditions  set  forth  in  this  principle. 

Fifth.  We  deplore  the  attitude  of  many  of  our  pastors  and 
churches  toward  the  various  benevolent  boards,  and  as  a  Conference 
we  wish  to  bring  to  the  attention  of  our  people  that  the  interests  . 
represented  by  these  boards  are  the  interests  and  work  of  the  whole 
Church  and  not  merely  the  work  of  the  department.  As  a  Con¬ 
ference,  we  pledge  the  General  Secretaries  of  their  Boards  our 
heartiest  cooperation  and  best  financial  support. 


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‘We  urge  upon  all  our  churches  to  adopt  the  budget  system  for 
benevolences  as  set  forth  in  the  booklet,  “The  New  Financial  Plan,” 
issued  by  the  Stewardship  Commission.  We  continue  to  urge  upon 
our  churches  and  pastors  the  importance  of  the  every  member  can¬ 
vass  for  an  annual  pledge  on  the  weekly  basis  for  the  benevolent 
budget.  Where  the  weekly  payment  plan  is  not  practical,  we  still 
insist  on  the  every  member  canvass,  payment  to  be  made  monthly, 
quarterly,  or  as  the  donor  may  indicate. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  J.  B.  Connett. 


THURSDAY— SECOND  DAY— 8 :  30  A.M. 

Devotion  was  conducted  by  W.  O.  Albert. 

The  minutes  of  yesterday  were  approved.  Bishop  Mathews  then 
addressed  the  Conference  upon  Christian  education.  A  few  points 
follow : 

1.  Denominational  colleges  are  synonymous  with  Christian 
education. 

2.  The  efforts  of  our  Church  in' former  years  are  not  to  be  de¬ 
scried. 

3.  The  destiny  of  a  nation  is  determined  by  what  its  young 
men  are  thinking  about  under  the  age  of  twenty-five. 

By  motion  the  organization  of  a  new  mission  in  Danville,  Illi¬ 
nois,  is  referred  to  the  Boundary  and  Finance  Committee. 

The  following  reports  were  then  approved. 

REPORT  ON  FIRST  YEARNS  READING  COURSE. 

We,  your  committee,  report  as  follows:  The  class  is  composed 
of  Sarah  D.  Bowman,  I.  J.  Knapp,-  J.  E.  Spencer,  J.  E.  Sybert, 
B.  C.  Peters,  G.  W.  Padrick,  J.  T.  Story,  C.  N.  Gladwell,  C.  W. 
Perkins,  W.  L.  Fear. 

Bev.  I.  J.  Knapp  has  completed  the  first  year,  and  we  recommend 
that  he  be  passed  to  the  second  year.  J.  E.  Spencer  has  been  ex¬ 
amined  on  the  Encyclopedic  Handbook  of  the  Bible  with  a  grade 
of  85%.  We  recommend  that  he  pass  on  this  book  and  be  retained 
in  the  first  year. 

Miss  Sarah  D.  Bowman  has  been  examined  on  the  Encyclopedic 
Handbook  of  the  Bible  with  a  grade  of  95%.  We  recommend  that 
she  he  passed  on  this  book  and  he  retained  in  the  first  year.  J.  E. 
Sybert  has  been  examined  and  made  the  following  grades  on  all 


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of  the  books  of  the  first  year  work.  Encyclopedic  Handbook  of  the 
Bible,  98%;  Foreign  Missions,  95%;  Extemporaneous  Oratory, 
90% ;  United  Brethren  Church  History,  90% ;  Making  of  the  Ser¬ 
mon,  92%. 

This  is  very  commendable  work;  he  has  made  a  good  record  who 
will  come  into  the  contest  to  do  likewise.  We  recommend  that  he 
pass  on  the  first  year  and  be  advanced  to  the  second  year.  B.  C. 
Peters  reports  that  he  has  done  work  in  Westfield  College  equiva¬ 
lent  to  the  academic  course  and  is  now  pursuing  studies  prepara¬ 
tory  to  entering  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary.  We  therefore, 
recommend  that  he  be  retained  in  the  first  year.  J.  T.  Story,  be¬ 
cause  of  strenuous  duties  on  a  large  circuit,  has  not  been  able  to 
take  up  his  study.  We  recommend  that  he  be  retained  in  the  first 
year.  G.  W.  Padrick  reports  that  he  has  purchased  all  of  the 
hooks  in  the  first  year  course  and  has  begun  his  study,  but  is  not 
quite  ready  for  examination.  We  therefore  recommend  that  he  be 
retained  in  the  first  year.  C.  N.  Gladwell  reports  that  on  account 
of  overwork,  in  building  enterprise,  and  sickness  he  was  unable 
to  take  up  his  study.  We  recommend  that  he  with  C.  W.  Perkins 
and  W.  L.  Fear,  be  retained  in  the  first  year. 

E.  E.  Bundy, 

D.  C.  Ade, 

C.  A.  Dwyer. 

REPORT  ON  SECOND  YEARNS  READING  COURSE. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Second  Year-s  Course,  would  submit  the 
following  report: 

The  class  is  composed  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Thompson,  B.  Black¬ 
burn,  R.  L.  Webber,  W.  O.  Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  Albert. 

Miss  Thompson,  W.  O.  Albert,  and  Mrs.  Albert  are  pursuing 
the  course  of  study  in  Bonebrake  Seminary.  We  therefore  recom¬ 
mend  that  they  be  excused. 

We  recommend  that  B.  Blackburn  and  R.  L.  Webber  be  con¬ 
tinued  in  the  second  year’s  course. 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

R.  Griffin, 

Committee. 


REPORT  ON  THE  CHRISTIAN  HOME. 

aTo  Adam,”  says  Bishop  Weaver,  “paradise  was  home.  To  the 
good  among  his  descendants,  home  is  paradise.” 

With  but  few  exceptions,  the  most  sacred  place  on  earth  is  the 
Christian  home.  God  intended  that  it  should  be  so,  for  he  “setteth 
the  solitary  in  families.” 


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Such  a  home  is  the  one  place  on  earth  where  love,  peace,  and 
confidence  reign  supreme;  where  the  Creator  has  placed  within  us 
aspirations  which  conform  to  a  nobler,  happier  destiny. 

Civilization  rests  on  seven  great  pillars.  First,  stability  of 
government;  second,  the  dignity  of  labor;  third,  the  purity  of 
society;  fourth,  the  recognized  position  of  womanhood;  fifth,  the 
character,  extent,  and  thoroughness  of  education ;  sixth,  the  free¬ 
dom  and  vitality  of  religious  institutions ;  seventh,  the  beauty, 
strength,  and  simplicity  of  the  home  life. 

A  civilization  resting  on  these  seven  pillars  of  granite  shall  be 
as  immovable  as  the  Gibraltar  standing  at  the  gateway  to  the  sea. 

The  Christian  home  is  the  castle  of  genuine  love,  the  tower  of 
an  enthroned  friendship,  the  citadel  of  every  pure  joy,  the  walled 
city  of  every  sacred  relationship,  and  the  round-table  of  social 
communion  and  all  the  highest  forms  of  human  activities  and  in¬ 
tellectual  exchange. 

Here,  we  may  find  a  woman’s  heart,  a  husband's  strength,  a 
father’s  wisdom,  a  child’s  awakening  consciousness,  an  infant’s 
smile,  and  the  kindling  touch  of  a  neighbor’s  loyalty. 

“Mid  pleasures  and  palaces, 

Tho’  we  may  roam ; 

Be  it  ever  so  humble, 

There ’s  no  place  like  home.” 

God  built  this  beautiful  world  as  a  home  for  his  obedient  and 
loving  children,  a  temple  where  devout  and  worshipful  spirits  shall 
plume  their  pinions  for  their  upward  flight,  to  dwell  forever  with 
him. 

We  need  not  say  that  none  but  the  children  of  love  can  mount 
up  to  this  sublime  conception. 

What  is  this  world  to  the  carnal  mass?  To  some  it  is  an  arena 
for  the  pursuit  of  wealth ;  to  others,  a  tempting  theater  for  revelry 
and  sin;  to  multitudes,  a  club  house  for  gluttony  and  sensual 
pleasure;  to  many,  a  wardrobe  for  vanity  and  display;  to  others, 
a  riddle  to  amuse  the  intellect  or  at  least  a  problem  for  the  thinker. 
But  to  one  and  all  who  are  willing  to  deny  themselves  and  take 
up  the  cross  and  follow  Jesus,  it  is  home. 

There  are  a  few  people  who  appear  abroad  as  they  do  at  home. 

When  in  society  the  best  are  conscious  of  restraint.  They 
measure  their  words,  guard  their  actions,  watch  their  spirit.  The 
proud  assume  an  air  of  humility,  the  ambitious  seem  contented, 
the  passionate  appear  calm.  The  motive  to  disguise  is  the  good 
opinion  of  others;  but  at  home  the  disguise  is  thrown  aside.  The 
motive  has  ceased  to  operate,  and  man  and  woman  appear  as  they 
are. 


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“The  strength  of  a  nation,  especially  a  Republican  nation,  is  in 
the  intelligent  and  well-ordered  homes  of  the  people.1’ 

In  the  training  of  the  child  for  future  citizenship,  we  begin 
in  the  home,  where  love  is  the  ruling  passion,  virtue  prized,  truth 
honored,  and  where  God  is  reverenced  and  obeyed,  and  the  moral 
integrity  and  religious  faith  of  the  nation  will  be  secure.  True, 
the  public  school  is  a  great  factor  in  our  civilization;  so  are  the 
stations  at  West  Point  and  Annapolis  for  the  training  of  our 
land  and  sea  forces,  for  the  protection  and  safety  of  the  nation. 
But  they  cannot  compensate  for  the  lack  of  proper  home  training. 
Our  legislative  assemblies  and  religious  conventions,  the  launch¬ 
ing  of  new  parties,  are  pressing  their  claims  for  consideration  in 
civic  righteousness  for  better  laws,  and  the  enforcement  of  same; 
relative  to  divorce  and  child  labor,  the  elimination  of  the  white 
slave  traffic,  and  the  final  and  death  blow  to  the  liquor  traffic.  We 
hope  to  see  the  day  when  there  will  be  neither  dram-shop  nor  a 
drunkard  to  prey  on  the  virtues  of  our  commonwealth. 

But  we  may  remember  that  the  most  enthusiastic  agitation 
cannot  fully  accomplish  the  great  task  of  purifying  life  in  its 
social,  political,  or  business  capacity.  The  streams  of  corruption 
may  be  checked  for  a  season,  or  forced  to  seek  new  channels,  but 
the  waters  of  a  stream  are  never  purer  than  the  fountain  from 
which  they  flow. 

“A  house  is  built  of  bricks  and  stones,  of  sills  and  posts  and  piers, 
But  a  home  is  built  of  loving  deeds  that  stand  a  thousand  years. 

A  house,  though  but  a  humble  cot,  within  its  walls  may  hold 
A  home  of  priceless  beauty,  rich  in  love’s  eternal  gold.” 

— Nixon  Waterman. 

The  Christian  home  is  the  fountain.  The  character  of  that 
fountain  determines  the  character  of  the  streams  of  influence  it 
sends  forth  into  the  great  body  of  the  national  life. 

The  orthodox  Jew  according  to  tradition  has  some  part  of  his 
house  unfinished,  to  bear  testimony  that  the  occupier  is  but  a 
pilgrim  here;  that  he  is  looking,  like  Father  Abraham,  for  the 
“city  that  hath  foundations.”  The  unfinished  part,  the  Jew  says, 
beautiful  as  it  is.  “This  is  not  my  home;  I  am  traveling  to 
eternity.”  The  greater  part  of  mankind  are  wanderers,  sojourners, 
tenants  at  will ;  and  this  is  the  lot  of  God’s  dear  children,  as  well 
as  others.  But  even  at  best,  an  earthly  home  fails  to  satisfy  the 
innate  longing  of  the  soul. 

Those  who  are  made  heirs  of  God  according  to  the  hopes  of 
eternal  salvation,  are  sensible  of  this  that  they  have  here  no  certain 
dwelling  place,  no  perfect  objects-  of  affection,  while  they  look  up¬ 
ward  with  joyful  anticipations  to  their  future  heavenly  home. 

C.  O.  Myers. 


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REPORT  ON  PUBLISHING  INTERESTS. 

The  old  way  of  communication  has  disappeared,  and  we  are  now 
in  the  midst  of  an  age,  where  periodicals  and  press  give  the  reading 
public  within  a  few  hours  after  issue,  that  which  used  to  take 
months  to  travel  across  the  continent. 

With  our  modes  of  travel  by  land  and  by  sea,  with  telegraph  and 
telephone  and  cable,  we  now  hear  every  day  the  joys  and  sorrows, 
the  blessings  and  deprivations  of  every  part  of  the  world. 

The  value  of  the  press  cannot  be  overestimated  in  our  cosmopol¬ 
itan  civilization. 

Since  the  press  has  such  an  influence,  it  behooves  religious  so¬ 
cieties  as  well  as  political  parties  to  keep  abreast  the  times  with 
modern  machinery,  modern  buildings,  efficient  workmen,  editors, 
stenographers,  reporters,  etc.  In  this  we  commend  our  publish¬ 
ing  agent. 

Dr.  Chapman,  two  years  ago,  paid  a  tribute  to  our  publishing 
house,  saying,  “It  is  the  highest  house  in  the  world.”  He  might 
have  gone  farther  and  said,  “Second  to  none  in  equipment.” 

In  our  church  life  as  well  as  social  reform,  the  periodicals  of 
our  Church  have  been  at  the  front  with  the  stamp  of  Prince 
Immanuel  on  all  their  theories. 

We  commend  the  fair  treatment  of  the  National  conventions  by 
Dr.  J.  M.  Phillippi,  by  pointing  out  the  preference  given  to  Catho¬ 
lic  and  Jew  above  Protestant  ministers,  which  every  Protestant 
may  well  stop  and  consider. 

We  commend  the  editors  of  the  various  departments  of  our 
publishing  house  in  that  they  are  easily  abreast  with  other  denomi¬ 
nations.  •  • 

We  heartily  endorse  the  administration  of  our  beloved  agent, 
Dr.  W.  P.  Funk,  in  his  progressive  policies  and  the  success  of 
carrying  them  to  completion,  also  in  giving  the  cream  of  his  life 
to  the  building  up  of  our  publishing  interests. 

Resolved,  That  Lower  Wabash  ministers  and  laity  pledge  them¬ 
selves  to  faithfully  cooperate  with  Dr.  Funk  in  carrying  out  his 
plans;  also  pledging  undivided  loyalty  to  the  periodicals  and  liter¬ 
ature  of  our  Church,  earnestly  striving  to  reach  the  ideals  of  each 
department. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

F.  H.  King, 
Committee. 

Pending  adoption  of  paper  on  publishing  interests,  Dr.  Funk  de¬ 
lighted  the  Conference  with  valuable  information  upon  publish¬ 
ing  interests. 


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Dr.  S.  S.  Hough  then  addressed  the  Conference  upon  Foreign 
Missions,  giving  much  needful  information. 

By  motion,  3 :  00  p.m.  to-day  was  chosen  for  the  time  to  hear 
the  fraternal  delegates  from  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church. 
Adjourned.  Benediction  by  W.  L.  Duncan. 


AFTERNOON  SESSION— SECOND  DAY— 1:30  P.M. 

Devotion  was  led  by  H.  D.  Hudson. 

Pastors’  reports  were  then  examined. 

The  names  of  Revs.  T.  IT.  Decker  and  W.  L.  Hall  were  ordered 
placed  upon  the  roll,  since  they  had  not  deposited  their  transfers 
elsewhere. 

The  proper  authorities  were  ordered  by  the  Conference  to  sell 
New  Hope  church  house  in  the  bounds  of  Vermilion  Circuit. 

As  3  :00  p.m.  had  arrived,  Rev.  A.  J.  Christy,  fraternal  delegate 
of  the  Northern  Illinois  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Protestant 
Church,  presented  his  credentials  and  addressed  the  Conference 
on  “Organic  Union  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  and  the  United 
Brethren  Churches.  Also  Rev.  E.  E.  Wesley,  fraternal  delegate 
of  the  Southern  Illinois  Conference  of  the  Methodist  Protestant 
Church  spoke  upon  the  same  subject.  At  this  point,  a  dollar 
shower  was  to  be  taken  for  the  Charleston  church  and  $62.35  were 
received.  The  following  resolution  was  then  enthusiastically  ap¬ 
proved. 

Resolved,  That  we,  the  members  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference 
appreciate  the  presence  of  these  fraternal  delegates  from  the  North 
Illinois  and  South  Illinois  Conferences  of  the  Methodist  Protestant 
Church  and  reciprocate  most  heartily  in  their  fraternal  greetings, 
that  we  appoint  fraternal  delegates  to  these  respective  conferences 
of  the  State  and  further  that  we  as  a  Conference  favor  the  pro¬ 
posed  organic  union  between  these  two  Churches,  provided,  that 
said  union  can  be  effective  upon  a  fair  and  equitable  basis. 

J.  B.  CONNETT, 

D.  R.  Seneff, 

W.  L.  Duncan, 

Presiding  Elders. 

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Adjourned.  Benediction  by  W.  R.  Funk. 


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FKIDAY  MORNING— THIRD  DAY— 8:  00  A.M. 

Devotion  was  led  by  C.  A.  Dwyer. 

The  minutes  of  yesterday  were  approved. 

» 

The  Bishop  then  addressed  the  Conference  on  “A  Happy  Min¬ 
istry/'  using  the  following  points : 

1.  A  God-called  and  a  God-sent  minister  is  happy. 

2.  A  commanding  knowledge  of  the  Word  affords  happiness. 

3.  Originality  affords  happiness. 

4.  Genuineness  affords  happiness. 

5.  Keeping  in  touch  with  the  multitudes  makes  a  happy  min¬ 
ister. 

6.  The  happy  minister  must  have  retirement. 

By  motion,  S.  O.  Stoltz  as  chairman  and  Everett  E.  Johnson 
as  secretary  were  added  to  the  Home  Missions  Committee. 

The  following  report  was  approved : 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  CONFERENCE  RELATIONS. 

We,  your  Committee  on  Conference  Relations ,  beg  to  submit  the 
following : 

There  appeared  before  the  committee,  Rev.  L.  M.  Cooper,  bear¬ 
ing  annual  ’Conference  license  from  the  Gospel  Workers’  Church. 
We  recommend  that  he  be  received  into  the  Conference  and  pur¬ 
sue  our  reading  courses  as  per  discipline. 

Rev.  Elijah  Scarber  came  before  the  committee  bearing  district 
conference  license  from  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  South. 
We  recommend  him  to  our  quarterly  conference  in  the  community 
in  which  he  lives. 

Rev.  W.  H.  Easton  requests  supernumerary  relation;  we  recom¬ 
mend  his  request  be  granted. 

We  recommend  that  Rev.  J.  W.  ITolsapple  receive  superannuated 
relation. 

R.  Griffin, 

c  y 

L.  E.  Miller, 

C.  A.  Hall. 

An  informal  discussion  on  Conference  benevolences  led  to  the 
motion  that  pastors  take  up  their  benevolences  in  the  first  three 
months  of  the  coming  conference  year.  The  motion  prevailed. 

Then  a  motion  was  made  to  take  up  a  subscription  to  meet  the 
deficit  on  Church  Extension,  Home  and  Foreign  Missions,  the 
amount  to  be  divided  proportionally. 


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After  some  earnest  words  by  Dr.  W.  R.  Funk,  the  above  motion 
and  proposed  subscription  was  referred  to  the  Boundary  and 
Finance  Committee. 

F.  H.  King  and  H.  G.  Taylor  were  added  to  the  Foreign  Missions 
Committee. 

i 

The  following  report  was  approved : 

REPORT  OF  NOMINATING  COMMITTEE. 

We  submit  the  following: 

Recording  Secretary.  L.  H.  Cooley,  Everet  E.  Johnson. 

Statistical  Secretary . — L.  E.  Miller,  C.  A.  Hall. 

Conference  Treasurer. — S.  O.  Stoltz,  C.  O.  Myers. 

College  Trustees,  (two  to  elect).— W.  L.  Duncan,  C.  E.  Bigelow, 
L.  H.  Cooley,  L.  E.  Miller. 

Trustees  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association: 

For  President. — G.  W.  Bonebrake,  F.  H.  King. 

For  Secretary. — J.  T.  McCreery,  O.  J.  Bogard. 

For  Treasurer. — J.  C.  Fowler,  IT.  W.  Broadstone. 

The  secretary  was  instructed  to  prepare  a  list  of  ministerial 
members  of  the  Conference  who  are  eligible  for  election  to  General 
Conference  and  give  the  list  to  the  Nominating  Committee  to 
prepare  printed  ballots. 

The  following  report  was  approved: 

;  .  • 

REPORT  ON  MEMOIRS. 

Inasmuch  as  God  in  his  all-wise  providence  has  removed  by  death 
the  past  year,  B.  F.  Meek,  we  recommend  that  J.  B.  Connett,  in  the 
memorial  service  on  Sunday  at  2  :30  p.n\.,  speak  in  memory  of 
Brother  Meek.  /  / 

We  also  recommend  that  this  body  express  sincere  sympathy 
for  Brother  J.  Tohill  in  the  tragic  death  of  his  wife,  by  an  ex¬ 
plosion  of  gas;  also  for  Brother  J.  W.  Holsapple  in  the  death  of 
his  wife. 

2.  That  we  extend  our  prayers  and  sympathy  to  Brother  and 
Sister  Elliott  and  Brother  Tlaycock  in  their  sad  afflictions  and  pray 
God’s  choicest  blessings  upon  them. 

J.  F.  Fowler, 

G.  W.  Reid, 

G.  W.  Ball, 

Committee. 

Here  Dr.  J.  M.  Phillippi  gave  valuable  information  upon  the 
greater  Bonebrake  Seminary.  .  _ 


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The  report  of  the  Boundary  Committee  was  read  as  follows : 

REPORT  OF  BOUNDARY  COMMITTEE. 

Your  committee  submits  the  following  report: 

That  Otterbein  be-  attached  to  Ashmore  Circuit. 

That  Charleston  constitute  Charleston  Mission  Station. 

That  Union,  of  Blue  Mound  Circuit,  be  attached  to  Oak  wood 
Circuit;  and  Blue  Mound,  to  White  Heath  Circuit. 

That  Pesotum  be  detached  from  Broadlands  Circuit,  and  at¬ 
tached  to  Galton  Circuit,  the  remaining  appointments  to  consti¬ 
tute  .Broadlands  Circuit. 

That  Martinsville  Mission  and  Circuit  shall  be  united  and 
constitute  Martinsville  Circuit. 

That  Woodlawn  and  Delhi  each  constitute  a  mission  station  with 
an  appropriation  on  condition  that  the  pastors  earnestly  endeavor 
to  organize  new  classes. 

That  there  be  two  presiding  elder  districts. 

An  amendment  was  made  that  there  be  one  presiding  elder  dis¬ 
trict.  An  amendment  to  the  amendment  was  made  and  adopted 
that  there  be  three  presiding  elder  districts.  The  original  paper 
as  amended  was  adopted. 

The  itinerant  list  was  then  corrected.  R.  Griffin  and  W.  Beasly 
were  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Conference  Relations  for  open 
transfers. 

Revs.  J.  B.  Norviel,  W.  L.  Duncan,  G.  W.  Bonebrake,  were  then 
elected  presiding  elders. 

Adjourned.  Benediction,  by  J.  Coffman. 


FRIDAY  AFTERNOON— THIRD  DAY— 1 :  30  P.  M. 

The  Preachers’  Aid  Society  held  its  annual  session  at  this  time. 
The  following  reports  were  approved : 

The  Conference  then  convened. 

J.  T.  McCreery  conducted  devotions. 

By  motion,  the  action  of  one  year  ago,  granting  Revs.  W.  Id. 
and  Mrs.  Elliott  transfers,  is  rescinded,  thus  retaining  them  in 
the  Conference. 

The  following  five  reports  were  approved: 


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REPORT  ON  Y.  P.  C.  E.  U. 

The  Young:  People’s  Society  of  Christian  Endeavor  is  an  organ¬ 
ization  for  the  building  of  young  people  in  the  faith  and  know¬ 
ledge  of  the  Son  of  God,  and,  for  leading  other  young  people 
into  the  light  of  the  Savior  of  the  world. 

It  is  in  this  work  the  young  people  get  their  training  for  larger 
work  of  the  Church. 

The  Christian  Endeavor  Society  is  thirty  years  old. 

In  trade,  when  a  manufactured  article  lasts  through  three  dec¬ 
ades,  men  conclude  that  it  is  a  good  thing.  The  same  holds  good 
in  the  “King’s  Business.” 

Continuity  counts.  The  three  decades  of  Christian  Endeavor 
are  not  to  be  despised  and  every  year  adds  to  it  wisdom  and  force. 
.  The  passing  years  have  not  changed  our  abiding  conviction 
that  people  who  attend  our  conventions  are  deeply  interested  in 
two  things,  spirit  and  method.  By  these  two  words  we  mean 
inspirational  religion  and  sensible  direction  in  the  ways  of  doing 
things. 

The  dominant  tone  should  be  spiritual.  Somewhere  in  every 
session  keep  this  uppermost.  The  Quiet  Hour  has  always  been, 
and  always  will  be  the  heart  of  the  Christian  Endeavor.  Hold 
fast  to  it;  send  the  young  people  out  with  a  clearer  vision  of  God. 

The  strength  of  the  Church  is  in  its  young  people  who  are 
strong  physically,  mentally,  and  spiritually. 

To  them  we  look  for  church  leaders  for  every  department,  and 
have  a  right  to,  for  if  society  is  not  conducted  for  the  growth  and 
development  of  its  members  it  has  no  right  to  exist. 

Our  Conference  Branch  Society  has  proven  its  right  to  existence, 
by  the  splendid  young  men  and  women  that  it  is  constantly  train¬ 
ing  for  prominent  work  in  the  Conference  and  Church  in  general. 

We  congratulate  Lower  Wabash  young  people  on  their  fine  mis¬ 
sionary  spirit,  and  in  the  larger  interest  they  are  taking  in  East 
St.  Louis,  in  paying  $650  for  the  support  of  the  pastor  and  in 
paying  $112  for  Foreign  Missions  this  year. 

Next,  may  we  enlist  not  only  money,  but  life,  in  a  larger 
evangelism,  and  in  the  training  of  Christian  workers  into  life  work 
for  the  Master. 

Resolved ,  First.  That  Christian  Endeavor  societies,  Junior 
and  Senior,  be  organized  in  all  the  churches  of  the  Conference. 

Second.  That  each  society  have  a  study  class  in  Home  or 
Foreign  Missions,  and  Christian  Stewardship  or  some  form  of 
Christian  training. 

Third.  That  each  society  have  an  increase  of  10%  of  member¬ 
ship  during  the  year. 


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Fourth.  That  we  observe  Efficiency  Day  this  fall,  and  Anniver¬ 
sary  Day  next  May,  in  every  society  in  the  Conference. 

Fifth.  That  we  heartily  commend  and  cooperate  with  the  present 
management  of  our  Branch  Christian  Endeavor. 

N.  E.  Royer, 
Committee. 

FOREIGN  MISSIONS. 

It  has  been  demonstrated  in  the  last  twelve  months  that  the 
Foreign  Mission  work  has  power  to  change  a  nation.  Chiefly 
through  the  teaching  of  the  gospel  of  Jesus  Christ  and  the  estab¬ 
lishment  of  mission  schools,  China  has  recently  emerged  from  an 
absolute  Monarchy  to  a  modern  Republic,  granting  equality,  lib¬ 
erty,  and  religious  freedom  to  four  hundred  millions  of  people 
who  have  been  sitting  in  the  shades  of  night  throughout  all  the 
centuries  of  the  past. 

During  the  past  year,  Bishop  Mathews  and  Secretary  Hough 
visited  four  of  our  foreign  fields;  namely,  Porto  Rico,  Japan, 
China,  and  the  Philippine  Islands,  and  their  reports  to  the  last 
Board  meeting  of  Foreign  Missions  which  have  been  .published  in 
the  booklet,  called  “Open  Doors”  present  to  our  denomination  a 
clear  statement  of  the  mighty  changes  going  on  in  these  fields  and 
the  share  that  falls  to  the  United  Brethren  Church  for  the  evan¬ 
gelization  of  the  world. 

The  progress  of  our  work  abroad  has  been  extremely  encourag¬ 
ing.  The  following  table  gives  the  growth  in  departments  of  the 
work  abroad  during  the  last  seven  years. 


• 

1905 

1912 

Foreign  Missionaries . 

.  31 

66 

113% 

N ative  Workers . 

.  81 

146 

80% 

Communicant  Members . 

.  1,429 

4,868 

240% 

Sunday-school  enrollment.  . . 

.  2,243 

6,026 

170% 

Gifts  from  native  churches 

toward 

self-support . 

.  $4,338 

$13,230 

200% 

As  a  result  of  the  investigation  in  our  foreign  fields  there  is  a 
call  at  once  for  twenty  new  missionaries;  likewise  a  corresponding 
increase  in  the  current  expenses  for  the  work,  and  in  addition  for 
new  chapels,  hospitals,  residences,  and  school  buildings  for  Japan, 
China,  the  Philippines,  and  Porto  Rico  to  be  erected  during  the 
next  five  years,  we  shall  need  $207,350. 

The  missionaries  are  giving  their  lives  unreservedly  for  the  work 
abroad.  The  native  church  is  being  developed  and  made  powerful. 
The  tours  of  investigation  by  Secretary  Hough  and  Bishop 
Mathews  have  been  made  and  the  needs  carefully  tabulated,  so  that 


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we  have  a  plain  vision  of  the  demands  that  are  upon  us.  Now, 
we  should  speedily  carry  into  effect  the  program  of  our  earnest  and 
enthusiastic  secretary  which  means  to  send  out  the  twenty  new 
missionaries,  and  to  provide  to  increase  our  gifts  at  least  fifty 
per  cent,  in  gifts  for  the  current  work,  and  in  addition  to  supplying 
the  equipment  in  buildings  so  much  needed,  within  five  years. 

To  meet  the  increased  needs  for  the  current  work  we  recommend 
the  new  “share  plan”  by  which  local  churches,  Sunday  schools  and 
Young  People’s  societies  can  take  a  number  of  fifty-dollar  shares 
in  the  entire  work  abroad.  Under  this  plan  no  church  should  be 
satisfied  to  give  less  than  two  cents  per  week  per  member  and 
those  who  are  not  burdened  with  local  needs  ought  to  give  from 
five  to  ten  cents  per  member. 

For  definite  information  concerning  the  new  share  plan,  address 
the  secretary  of  Foreign  Missions,  1003  IT.  B.  Building,  Dayton, 
Ohio. 

It  is  of  greatest  importance  that  the  whole  Church  membership 
have  a  report  of  what  Bishop  Mathews  and  Secretary  Hough  saw 
in  their  visits  to  these  fields  the  past  year.  As  a  result  of  the  de¬ 
mands  for  this,  a  report  i&  being  prepared  to  be  placed  in  every 
family  of  the  Church  so  that  the  whole  membership  may  be  in¬ 
formed  as  to  the  needs  abroad  as  well  as  to  our  splendid  growth 
and  achievements.  The  name  of  the  new  book  will  be  “The  Call 
of  China  and  the  Islands.”  Price,  25  cents  a  copy,  cloth;  15  cents, 
paper.  Five  copies,  cloth,  for  $1;  10  copies,  paper,  for  $1. 

It  is  earnestly  desired  that  not  a  single  family  in  any  local 
church  fail  to  get  this  report  which  is  due  them  as  each  one  is 
a  member  for  life  of  the  Foreign  Missionary  Society  and  is  entitled 
to  the  report  of  the  work  that  is  going  on  in  the  foreign  fields. 

As  a  result  of  the  facts  herein  stated,  much  missionary  informa¬ 
tion  can  be  given  through  the  Young  People’s  societies  and  the 
Sunday  schools  as  well  as  through  the  whole  Church  membership, 
by  sermons  and  through  mission  study  classes.  A  feature  of 
especial  interest  during  the  quarter  of  January  1  to  April  1,  will 
be  the  celebration  of  the  Livingstone  Celebration  Centennial. 

During  next  January  and  February,  the  whole  world  will  be 
studying  the  life  of  Livingstone;  each  Sunday  school  should  be  able 
to  have  a  special  program  and  take  an  offering  each  month,  and 
to  pray  daily  for  Secretary  Hough  as  he  goes  to  Africa.  And 
as  we  think  of  a  number  in  our  own  Church  who  have  given  their 
lives  and  many  who  have  given  remarkable  devotion  and  effort 
for  the  carrying  the  gospel  of  our  Lord  to  the  dark  parts  of  the 
earth,  let  us  be  very  earnest  and  faithful  in  supporting  the  im¬ 
portant  cause  of  Foreign  Missions. 


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It  is  indeed  humiliating  to  me  to  report  such  a  deplorable  defic 
of  funds  in  our  Conference.  And  I  trust  that  in  compliance  wit 
the  requirements  of  God’s  Word,  we  will  discharge  our  duty  i 
such  a  way  that  we  may  give  the  gospel  to  our  part  of  the  heathe 
world  within  this  generation. 

In  as  much  as  we  feel  that  we  have  not  discharged  our  who] 
duty  toward  Foreign  Missions;  therefore  he  it 

Resolved ,  That  we  will  make  an  honest  effort  in  the  most  tact¬ 
ful  way  that  we  can,  to  raise  at  least  $1,500  this  next  conferene 
year,  that  we  may  not  be  humiliated  as  we  have  been  this  year,  b 
reporting  only  $726.09,  a  less  sum  by  $379.01,  than  we  were  able  t 
report  one  year  ago,  which  was  smaller  than  it  should  have  been. 

S.  O:  Stoljz. 

REPORT  OF  HOME  MISSIONS  COMMITTEE. 

The  demands,  the  needs,  and  the  field  of  Horne  Missions  ar 
constantly  increasing  with  every  new  city  allotment  ;  every  boa 
load  of  immigrants  that  lands  on  our  shores  and  with  every  ne^ 
colony  that  settles  on  our  frontier.  There  is  a  oneness  in  purpos 
and  a  gratifying  awakening  upon  the  part  of  the  America] 
churches  to  the  tremendous  problem  of  saving  our  own  land.  On 
of  the  most  important,  united  movements  that  Protestant  Chris 
tianity  has  ever  made  is  the  present  effort  of  the  Home  Missioi 
Council,  which  includes  nearly  all  of  the  Home  Missionary  Socie 
ties,  to  learn  the  real  conditions  in  fifteen  of  the  frontier  State: 
through  what  is  known  as  the  “Neglected  Fields’  Survey.”  Thi 
includes  a  canvass  of  each  ward  in  the  cities  and  every  school  dis 
trict  in  the  country.  The  complete  statistics  are  soon  to  be  pub 
lished. 

The  next  display  of  Home  Mission  activity  will  be  the  campaigi 
started  by  twenty-seven  Home  Mission  Boards  and  nine  Woman! 
Home  Missionary  Societies,  which  embrace  nearly  all  the  Protes 
tant  bodies,  to  carry  forward  a  great  educational  movement,  em¬ 
bracing  twelve  weeks  from  September  1,  and  closing  with  a  week 
of  special  services  from  November  17  to  21  inclusive.  During  this 
campaign,  prize  articles  on  great  Home  Mission  problems  will  D 
presented  in  the  leading  magazines  and  syndicated  articles  through 
the  secular  newspapers  as  well  as  the  religious  press  of  the  country; 
but  most  significant,  is  the  silent  campaign  to  be  carried  on  in  the 
local  churches.  Great  attention  will  be  given  to  the  matter  of 
Home  Mission  study  during  these  weeks  and  every  phase  of  Home 
Mission  will  be  considered.  A  central  bureau  or  office  has  been 
opened  in  New  York  and  millions  of  tracts  and  programs  together 
with  charts,  are  being  distributed  throughout  the  different  denomi- 


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nations.  At  least  one  a  week  of  the  charts  will  be  furnished  where 
they  can  be  used.  The  means  for  this  great  forward  movement 
are  being  furnished  by  philanthropists,  who  are  interested  in  the 
salvation  of  America,  and  are  not  afraid  to  make  eternal  invest¬ 
ments,  knowing  that  in  proportion  as  we  succeed  in  saving  Amer¬ 
ica,  we  save  the  world. 

The  activity  of  our  own  Home  Missionary  Society  is  worthy  of 
our  special  consideration.  Never  in  a  single  year  have  so  many 
centers  of  influence  been  opened  while  many  places  of  less  stra¬ 
tegic  importance  have  been  assisted  by  the  society.  In  doing  this 
extraordinary  work,  $9,000  more  than  formerly  was  appropriated. 
The  venture  was  made  by  faith  in  the  conferences  and  Church,  be¬ 
lieving  they  would  come  up  with  gifts  to  meet  the  emergency,  but 
to  our  great  regret  a  number  of  the  stronger  conferences  have 
fallen  down  in  their  annual  gifts  the  past  year.  This  has  en¬ 
tailed  upon  the  society,  a  debt  of  several  thousand  dollars. 

Resolved,  1.  We  are  disappointed  at  the  shortage  in  Home 
Mission  gifts  the  past  year  and  will  do  our  part  to  bring  up  this 
deficiency  during  this,  the  last  year  of  the  quadrennium. 

2.  We  approve  of  the  minimum  asked  by  the  Board,  at  its 
last  session,  of  an  average  of  fifty  cents  per  member  for  Home 
Missions  for  the  coming  year  and  believe  that  many  of  our  church¬ 
es  ought  to  do  better  than  that. 

3.  We  consider  the  “Neglected  Fields7  Survey77  of  the  fifteen 
frontier  States  to  be  one  of  the  most  practical  moves  the  Protes¬ 
tant  Churches  of  America  have  ever  made  and  when  the  facts 
are  fully  known,  we  as  ministers  will  preach  on  the  subject,  and 
as  lay  delegates,  will  agree  to  pass  the  information  on  with  a  view 
of  enlightening  our  people  in  the  great  spiritual  needs  of  our  own 
country. 

4.  We  will  most  cheerfully  enter  into  and  cooperate  with  the 
Home  Missionary  Society,  the  Board  of  Bishops  and  Woman’s  Mis¬ 
sionary  Association,  together  with  other  Protestant  Evangelical 
Churches  in  making  the  week  of  November  47  to  24,  a  great  period 
for  Home  Missions  in  all  our  local  churches. 

5.  We  regard  as  decidedly  wrong,  the  neglect  of  some  of  our 

churches  to  follow  the  Discipline  in  not  giving  the  entire  Church 
an  opportunity  to  make  offerings  for  Home  Missions,  but  simply 
using  the  gifts  made  by  the  Sunday  schools  during  the  Home 
Mission  period,  for  that  cause,  without  any  systematic  presentation 
of  the  claims  of  Home  Missions  to  the  church,  when  the  collec¬ 
tions  from  the  Sunday  school  were  intended  simply  to  supplement 
the  offerings  of  the  church.  W.  L.  Duncan.  Secretary. 


Rev.  C.  Whitney  spoke  earnestly  upon  the  above  report. 


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REPORT  ON  BIBLE  CAUSE. 

It  was  remarked  a  few  years  ago,  by  a  certain  professor  of  the 
Chicago  University,  that  there  needed  to  be  written,  for  public 
use,  a  more  practical  and  up-to-date  book  than  the  Bible,  claim¬ 
ing  the  Bible  to  be  impractical,  out  of  date,  and  unable  to  solve 
the  problems  of  this  present-day  life. 

We  take  note,  however,  that  all  effort  to  prepare  such  a  book 
has  failed.  While  on  the  other  hand  we  also  note  that  the  world 
is  recognizing  more  and  more  the  superiority  of  the  Bible  over 
all  other  books. 

Many  books  have  been  written  and  applauded  as  being  of  great 
value,  yet  they  passed  away  and  in  time  were  forgotten.  Not  so 
with  the  Bible:  “It  lives  on  forever.”  Instead  of  becoming  old, 
out  of  date,  and  unattractive,  it  remains  forever  new,  solving 
every  problem  in  life.  Says  Jesus  concerning  this  matter,  “Heaven 
and  earth  may  pass  away,  but  my  word  shall  never  pass  away.” 

Only  a  glance  at  non-Bible  lands  with  their  idols  of  wood  and 
stone,  their  ridiculous  superstitions,  their  practices  of  sin  and 
selfishness,  and  to  know  that  these  things  are  advocated  by  the 
authorities  of  those  lands;  then  compare  this  with  the  Bible-land, 
with  its  knowledge  of  the  true  God,  its  ever  increasing  comprehen¬ 
sion  of  truth,  its  recognition  of  the  value  of  personal  character; 
its  interest  in  moral  development,  its  care  for  the  helpless,  etc., 
gives  us  some  little  idea  of  the  value  of  the  influence  of  the  Bible 
upon  a  people. 

Notice  how  it  affects  personal  character;  its  effect  upon  the 
morals  of  a  land;  how  it  continually  points  to  something  higher 
than  material  things,  creating  a  noble  ambition  in  the  hearts  of 
men  for  better  things;  how  it  robs  the  world  of  its  darkness  and 
gives  instead  the  light  of  godliness,  until  we  are  impressed  with 
the  truth  of  the  statement  of  Jesus,  “I  am  the  light  of  the  world: 
he  that  followeth  me  shall  not  walk  in  darkness,  but  shall  have 
the  light  of  life.”  John  8:  12. 

So  far  we  have  considered  the  Bible  as  it  affects  this  life  only. 
While  this  is  of  great  worth,  yet  the  Bible  reveals  something  far 
greater  than  this:  It  reveals  to  us  that  which  can  be  learned  from 
no  other  source,  that  the  essential  part  of  man’s  life  is  not  mate¬ 
rial,  seeking  material  things,  but  spiritual,  seeking  spiritual  things. 
That  God,  in  whom  we  live,  and  move,  and  have  our  being,  the 
•  creator  of  all  things,  is  a  spirit;  and  if  we  would  worship  this 
true  and  only  God  we  must  worship  him  in  spirit  and  in  truth. 

It  also  speaks  of  Jesus,  the  Christ,  how  he  left  his  home  in 
Glory,  came  to  earth,  died  on  the  Cross  of  Calvary  a  ransom  for 
many,  “that  whosoever  believeth  on  him  should  not  perish,  but  have 


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everlasting  life.”  As  a  result  of  this,  those  who  believe,  can 
all  say  with  the  Apostle  Paul,  “For  we  know  that  if  our  earthly 
house  of  this  tabernacle  were  dissolved,  we  have  a  building  of  God, 
an  house  not  made  with  hands,  eternal  in  the  heavens.” 

In  consideration  of  the  needs  of  man,  the  influence  the  Bible 
has  upon  this  present  life  and  the  hope  it  sets  before  us  for  the 
future,  be  it 

Resolved ,  1.  That  we,  as  gospel  ministers  and  laymen  offer  up 
our  most  sincere  thanks  to  Almighty  God  that  we  have  the  privi- 
lege  of  living  under  the  influence  of  such  a  book  as  the  Bible 
and  that  we,  in  the  future,  spend  more  time  in  careful  and  pray¬ 
erful  study  of  its  great  truths. 

2.  That  we  urge  the  people  as  never  before,  to  keep  up  regular 
Bible  reading  in  their  homes  and  Bible  Study  classes  in  every 
department  of  the  Church. 

3.  That  we  assist  in  every  way  possible  the  American  Bible 
Society  in  its  effort  to  place  the  Bible  in  every  home. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

B.  C.  Peters. 


REPORT  ON  TEMPERANCE. 

The  Church  of  Jesus  Christ  has  long  been  the  exponent  of  clean 
living  and  civic  righteousness. 

Its  duty  is  to  rebuke  evil  in  king’s  courts  and  in  legislative 
halls,  as  well  as  in  the  dark  places  of  ignorance  and  cesspools  of 
vice. 

The  Church  should  seek  to  know  the  cause  as  well  as  the  cure 
of  the  sins  that  are  blighting  the  individual  and  cursing  the 
body  politic ;  and  by  prayer,  by  the  helping  hand,  and  at  the  ballot 
box,  to  demand  the  things  that  make  for  righteousness  and  God’s 
glory. 

The  signs  of  the  times  proclaim  to  every  listening  ear  that  some¬ 
thing  definite  must  be  done  to  break  the  shackles  that  the  liquor 
interests  have  cast  about  the  forces  of  our  Government. 

The  drunkard  makers  know  every  legislator  and  every  officer 
that  is  for  them ;  and  will  not  support  the  one  that  is  not  for  them, 
but  will  spare  no  money,  no  time,  no  effort  to  defeat  their  enemy 
or  elect  their  friends,  regardless  of  the  party  to  which  the  candi¬ 
dates  belong. 

Should  the  Church  be  less  wise  or  less  courageous  in  the  battle? 
It  was  the  sword  of  the  Lord  and  of  Gideon  that  won  the  battle. 
God  has  shown  us  the  wet  fleece  on  the  dry  ground  and  the  dry 
fleece  on  the  wet  ground ;  and  yet  many  of  his  soldiers  are  fearful 
and  fall  away  before  the  battle  ends. 


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Last  year  statistics  show  that  American  saloons  went  out  of 
business  at  the  rate  of  thirty  a  clay  and  church  houses  were  estab¬ 
lished  at  the  rate  of  eight  a  day.  Padded  reports  will  no  longer 
work,  for  the  liquor  interests  are  forced  to  confess  that  the  sale 
of  liquor  has  decreased,  and  brewing  companies  are  going  to  the 
wall. 

A  bill  is  now  pending  before  the  United  States  Senate,  which 
if  passed,  will  prohibit  the  shipment  of  liquor  into  dry  territory, 
and  thus  prohibit  the  establishment  of  government  saloons  con¬ 
trary  to  our  vote  and  curtail  the  operations  of  the  blind  pig  and 
bootlegger. 

What  minister’s  heart  has  not  bled,  after  rescuing  a  victim  from 
the  rum  power  and  bringing  him  to  God,  to  know  that  the  thirst 
for  rum  has  again  overcome  him,  and  driven  him  to  commit  crime 
for  which  he  is  not  accountable !  Strong  drink  is  the  worst  enemy 
of  our  Church. 

The  use  of  tobacco  incurs  a  needless  waste  of  Gochs  money  and 
is  a  bad  and  filthy  habit. 

Resolved,  1.  That  we  give  special  attention  to  the  dissemination 
of  the  truth  concerning  the  cause  of  temperance,  and  the  trickery 
and  political  schemes  of  the  rum  traffic. 

2.  That  we  stand  by  the  candidates  who  have  been  true  when  in 
office,  and  who  are  pledged  to  be  true  again,  and  support  them 
at  the  ballot  box;  also  that  we  oppose  the  candidates  from  the  lowest 
even  to  the  highest  office,  who  are  not  pledged  to  support  the  cause 
of  temperance. 

3.  That  we  will  petition,  and  urge  our  people  to  petition,  our 
law  makers  to  support  the  Kenyon-Shephard  bill  prohibiting  the 
abuse  of  our  local  option  laws  and  annulling  in  part  our  victories 
by  the  shipment  of  liquor  into  dry  territory. 

4.  That  no  candidates  who  will  not  stand  at  all  times  for  tem¬ 
perance  and  publicly  declare  his  purpose  so  to  do,  is  worthy  of 
our  support. 

5.  That  we  will  use  our  influence  to  save  our  people  from  the 
pernicious  habit  of  tobacco  using. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

R.  Griffin, 
Committee. 

By  motion  the  secretary  was  instructed  to  send  a  message  to 
Senator  Cullom,  kindly  urging  him  to  support  the  Kenyon-Shep¬ 
hard  bill. 

The  following  report  was  adopted  : 


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REPORT  ON  CANDIDATES  FOR  LAY  DELEGATES. 

Che  laymen  of  the  fifty-fifth  session  of  Lower  Wabash  Confer¬ 
ee  met  in*  separate  session  and  nominated  the  following  candi¬ 
es  for  lay  delegates  to  the  next  General  Conference: 

1.  C.  E.  Bigelow,  Westfield,  Illinois. 

2.  F.  D.  Fitch,  Flat  Rock,  Illinois. 

3.  IL  G.  Taylor,  Alney,  Illinois. 

4.  E.  A.  Norviel,  Toledo,  Illinois. 

5.  John  E.  Wesley,  Robinson,  Illinois. 

6.  C.  C.  Hodges,  West  Union,  Illinois. 

7.  Myrtle  L.  Sperry,  Greenup,  Illinois. 

8.  C.  C.  Rose,  Olney,  Illinois. 

9.  L.  A.  Rider,  Westfield,  Illinois. 

0.  E.  A.  Branson,  Lawrenceville,  Illinois. 

1.  E.  LI.  Carson,  .6942  Mardel  Ave.,  St.  Louis,  Missouri. 

.2.  C.  B.  Turner,  Brownstown,  Illinois. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

C.  E.  Bigelow,  Pres., 

I  •  H.  G.  Taylor,  Sec. 

die  following  named  persons  were  appointed  tellers  to  count  the 
lots  for  General  Conference  delegates: 

Wm.  Dennis,  Chas.  Martin,  John  McColpin,  all  of  Robinson, 
inois.  Alternates,  W.  B.  Adams,  Wm.  Henderson,  Frank  Var- 
lkle,  all  of  Robinson,  Illinois,  Route  4. 

levs.  A.  Belden  and  C.  N.  Gladwell  were  appointed  tellers  to 
mt  the  ballots  for  the  committee  to  station  presiding  elders. 

The  report  of  the  Third  Year’s  Reading  Committee  was  approved 
follows : 

REPORT  ON  THIRD  YEARNS  READING  COURSE. 

We  submit  the  following  report: 

The  class  consists  of  I.  S.  Mclver,  H.  S.  Reese,  O.  J.  Bogard, 
I  W.  Beasly. 

3.  J.  Bogard  and  W.  Beasly  appeared  before  the  committee  and 
;de  the  following  credits:  O.  J.  Bogard,  Higher  Criticism,  85; 
urcli  History,  90. 

W.  Beasly,  Christian  Pastor,  98 ;  Church  History,  78 ;  Exeget- 
I  Study,  87;  Psychology,  85;  Higher  Criticism,  90;  Christian 
ith,  85 ;  Sermon,  95. 

We  recommend:  1.  That  W.  Beasly  and  O.  J.  Bogard  be 
ssed  to  the  fourth  year,  having  completed  the  third  year. 


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2. 


That  H.  S.  Reese  and  I.  S.  Mclver  be  retained  in  the  third 


year. 

T.  D.  Spyker, 

1ST.  E.  Royer, 

J.  T.  McCreery, 
Committee. 


The  Church  and  Parsonage 


Building  Association  then  transacted 


the  following  business : 

The  treasurer,  J.  C.  Fowler,  gave  the  following  report: 


REPORT  OF  TREASURER  OF  CONFERENCE  CHURCH  AND  PARSONAGE 


BUILDING  FUND. 

Funds  received  since  August  28,  1911 . $1,627.15 

Funds  paid  out .  1,265.74 


Balance  . $  361.41 

Assets  secured  by  note  and  mortgage : 

Mt.  Yernon  church . $  500.00 

Lawrenceville  church .  785.00 

Flora  church .  50  00 

East  St,  Louis  church .  600.00 

Milford  church .  400.00 

Charleston  church .  500.00 

Rev.  F.  H.  King  on  note .  69.00 

Due  from  Northern  Illinois  Conference .  14.47 


Total  assets . $3,279.88 

Cash  on  hands .  361.41 


Grand  total  in  assets . . $3,641.29 


J.  C.  Fowler, 
Treasurer. 


The  following  amendment  to  the  constitution  of  the  Church  and 
Parsonage  Building  Association  was  adopted,  immediately  follow¬ 
ing  and  made  a  part  of  Article  VII. 

Provided,  that  in  cases  where  the  taking  of  such  loans  is  imprac¬ 
ticable,  and  where  it  is  desirable  to  extend  such  aid,  the  trustees 
may,  in  their  discretion,  extend  temporary  aid  without  such  secur¬ 
ity,  care  being  exercised  always  not  to  imperil  the  interests  of  the 
society. 

The  association  then  adjourned. 

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The  Conference  treasurer’s  report  was  approved  as  follows: 

treasurer's  report. 

Amount  received  and  disbursed  up  to  Conference. 

Received  on  Church  Extension . $  374.57 

Received  on  Church  Erection .  102.96 

Received  on  Foreign  Missions .  169.48 

Received  on  Home  Missions .  124.05 

Received  on  Bishop’s  salary . * .  10.00 

Received  on  contingent .  176.35 

Received  on  Westfield  College .  21.06 

Received  on  Bonebrake  Seminary .  8.91 

Received  on  Beneficiary  Aid .  11.78 

Received  on  Beneficiary  Education .  3.47 

Received  on  Sunday-school  general .  2.62 

Received  on  General  Conference  expenses .  6.00 


Total . ♦ . $1,011.25 

Disbursements. 

Paid  to  Missionary  pastors . $  374.57 

Paid  to  H.  S.  Gabel .  52.56 

Paid  to  S.  S.  Hough .  158.12 

Paid  to  C.  Whitney .  70.75 

Paid  to  W.  R.  Funk .  117.60 

Paid  to  B.  B.  Phelps .  8.00 

Paid  to  L.  H.  Cooley .  20.00 

"Paid  to  C.  A.  Dwyer .  10.00 

Paid  to  S.  O.  Stoltz .  20.00 

Paid  for  Conference  tickets .  .75 

Paid  for  blanks  and  postage .  6.00 


Total  . $  838.35 

Balance  . .  172.90 


Total  . $1,011.25 

Amount  received  at  Conference. 

On  Church  Extension . $1,539.44 

On  Home  Missions . .  . .  400.51 

On  Foreign  Missions .  520.23 

On  Bishop .  404 . 60 

On  Beneficiary  Aid... .  218.17 

On  Sunday-school  general .  113 . 16 

On  Bonebrake  Seminary.  . . . * .  175.18 


Conference  Pro ceedings 


On  Westfield  College .  476.40 

On  Beneficiary  Education . : .  67.14 

On  Contingent .  136.75 

On  General  Conference  expense . . .  261 . 13 

On  Church  Erection .  88.84 

On  Parsonage .  5.00 


Total  . $4,406.73 

Amount  Disbursed. 

To  Pastors . $1,266.00 

To  J.  T.  McCreery .  209.17 

To  W.  P.  Funk . 26.64 

To  C.  A.  Dwyer .  1.60 


Total  . $1,503.41 

Balance  . . .  2,903 . 32 


Total . • . $4,406.73 


Respectfully, 

S.  O.  Stoltz, 

Treasurer. 

The  Branch  Church  Erection  Board  of  Trustees  was  reelected 
by  acclamation  as  follows :  B.  B.  Phelps,  E.  M.  Pierson,  C.  A. 
Dwyer,  W.  L.  Duncan,  J.  B.  Norviel. 

The  recording  secretary,  statistical  secretary,  Conference  trea¬ 
surer,  Westfield  College  Trustees,  and  the  trustees  of  the  Church 
and  Parsonage  Building  Association,  all  for  the  coming  year,  were 
elected  by  ballot.  IT.  A.  Bogard  and  H.  D.  Hudson  were  ap¬ 
pointed  tellers  to  count  the  ballots. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  Mrs.  B.  J.  Nash. 


SATURDAY  MORNING— FOURTH  DAY — 8 :  00  A.M. 

Devotion  led  by  E.  M.  Pierson. 

The  name  of  IT.  A.  Lehwald  was  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Conference  Relations  for  the  relation  of  evangelist  at  large.  The 
same  committee  was  also  instructed  to  examine  names  of  local 
preachers  and  learn  from  the  presiding  elders  who  should  be  ad¬ 
vanced  to  the  rank  of  itinerants. 


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The  name  of  Mrs.  W.  L.  Fear  was  also  referred  to  the  same  - 
mmittee  for  membership  in  the  Conference. 

Rev.  Everett  E.  Johnson  reported  that  the  subscription  last 
glit  for  the  Charleston  and  Mt.  Vernon  churches  amounted  to 

27.  ‘ 

J.  B.  Connett  resigned  as  trustee  of  Westfield  College,  which 
is  accepted,  and  M.  L.  Briscoe  of  Westfield,  Illinois,  was  elected 
fill  the  vacancy. 

The  secretary  was  instructed  to  send  to  the  United  Brethren 
iblishing  House,  the  names  of  all  who,  as  per  Discipline,  are 
titled  to  the  Religious  Telescope  gratis. 

|  The  secretary  received  a  reply  this  morning  from  Olivet  College, 
iting  that  D.  F.  Meek  is  dead. 

By  motion,  the  Statistical  Committee  of  next  year  are  instructed 
prepare  a  summary  of  the  pastors’  reports  and  report  the  same 
the  Conference,  instead  of  the  chairman  examining  said  reports. 
The  following  resolution  was  then  adopted: 

In  view  of  the  fact  that  the  Statistical  Committee  has  completed 
ieir  work  of  examining  pastors’  annual  Conference  reports 
enty-four  hours  earlier  than  heretofore,  thus  giving  the 
mmittee  the  opportunity  to  share  the  joys  and  benefits  of  the 
mference ;  therefore, 

Resolved,  That  the  pastors’  annual  Conference  reports  be  sent 
mail  to  the  chairman  of  the  Statistical  Committee  on  Monday 
eceding  the  convening  of  Conference,  to  the  place  where  the 
mference  is  to  be  held. 

F.  H.  King, 

C.  O.  Myers, 

L.  E.  Miller, 

Committee. 

The  following  reports  were  approved : 

REPORT  OF  AUDITING  COMMITTEE. 

We  vour  Auditing  Committee  have  examined  the  books  of  the 
[lowing  treasurers  and  found  the  same  correct:  J.  T.  McCreery, 
usurer  Preachers’  Aid  Society;  J.  C.  Fowler,  treasurer  Church 
d  Parsonage  Building  Association;  S.  O.  Stoltz,  treasurer  of  the 
mference.  H.  G.  Taylor, 

W.  E.  Shell, 

C.  O.  Myers, 

Committee. 


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REPORT  OF  PRESIDING  ELDER  STATIONING  COMMITTEE. 


You  have  elected  to  station  the  presiding  elders  on  Danville 
District ,  C.  A.  Hall,  C.  A.  Dwyer;  Olney  District ,  J.  T.  McCreery, 
J.  C.  Fowler;  Westfield  District ,  F.  H.  King,  L.  E.  Miller. 

A.  Belden, 

C.  N.  Gladwell, 
Tellers. 


REPORT  OF  FOURTH  YEARNS  READING  COURSE. 

We  submit  the  following  report: 

The  class  consists  of  O.  J.  Bogard,  IT.  A.  Bogard,  F.  H.  King, 
and  I.  S.  Mclver,  who  met  the  committee  and  made  the  following 
credits : 

O.  J.  Bogard. — Pedagogical  Bible  School,  96;  Apologetics,  86; 
Stevens’  Theology,  87;  Christian  Faith,  88;  Ethics,  90. 

F.  H.  King. — Pedagogical  Bible  School,  82;  Apologetics,  82; 
Stevens’  Theology,  77;  Christian  Faith,  95;  Ethics,  75. 

H.  A.  Bogard,  Pedagogical  Bible  School,  80;  Stevens’  Theology 
70. 

I.  S.  Mclver,  Stevens’  Theology,  84;  Christian  Faith,  78. 

O.  J.  Bogard,  H.  A.  Bogard,  and  F.  H.  King  presented  written 
sermons  of  required  merit. 

O.  J.  Bogard  and  F.  H.  King,  having  completed  the  disciplinary 
course,  we  recommend  that  they  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on 
Elders’  Orders;  and  that  H.  A.  Bogard  and  I.  S.  Mclver  be  re¬ 
tained  in  the  course. 

J.  B.  Norviel, 

,  W.  R.  Muncie, 

W.  C.  II AR BERT. 

X  J 

Committee. 

Later  in  the  session  the  following  supplement  was  approved : 

SUPPLEMENTARY  REPORT  ON  FOURTH  YEAR. 

Inasmuch  as  H.  A.  Bogard  read  and  made  fair  grades,  but  not 
up  to  the  required  standard  on  Apologetics,  Christian  Faith,  and 
Ethics,  and  inasmuch  as  he  agrees  to  bring  his  grades  to  the  re¬ 
quired  standard  in  the  near  future  and  desires  to  take  the  examina¬ 
tion  on  Elders’  Orders  with  other  members  of  the  class,  we  there¬ 
fore  recommend  that  he  be  referred  to  the  Committee  on  Elders’ 
Orders,  Respectfully, 

J.  B.  Norviel, 

W.  R.  Muncie, 

W,  C.  Harbert, 

Committee. 


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REPORT  OF  TELLERS. 

We  report  that  the  following  named  persons  were  elected  to 
Conference  offices. 

Recording  Secretary. — Everett  E.  Johnson. 

Statistical  Secretary. — L.  E.  Miller. 

Conference  Treasurer. — S.  O.  Stoltz. 

College  Trustees. — W.  L.  Duncan,  C.  E.  Bigelow. 

Trustees  Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association. — G.  W. 
Bonebrake,  president;  J.  T.  McCreery,  secretary;  J.  C.  Fowler, 
treasurer. 

H.  A.  Bogard, 

IT.  D.  Hudson, 

Tellers. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake  resigned  the  office  of  presiding  elder,  because 
of  being  physically  unable  for  the  work. 

The  resignation  was  accepted  and  E.  M.  Pierson  wTas  elected. 
Bev.  Mr.  Pierson  then  tendered  his  resignation  which  was  accepted 
and  C.  A.  Dwyer  was  elected. 

Candidates  for  the  ministerial  delegates  to  the  next  General 
Conference  were  voted  on  and  H.  D.  Hudson  and  O.  J.  Bogard 
were  appointed  tellers. 

The  following  report  was  adopted : 

REPORT  ON  ELDERS'  ORDERS. 

There  came  before  your  committee,  O.  J.  Bogard,  PI.  A.  Bogard, 
and  F.  H.  King  for  examination. 

We  recommend  that  they  be  admitted  to  Elders’  Orders. 

Bespectfully  submitted, 

S.  Mills, 

H.  W.  Broadstone, 

Committee. 

Miss  Daisy  Bowman  brought  greetings  from  the  Woman’s  Mis¬ 
sionary  Association  of  this  Conference. 

J.  B.  Norviel  was  appointed  to  bear  greetings  from  this  body 
to  the  next  Branch  Woman’s  Missionary  Association. 

REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  OF  NINE. 

Your  committee  to  whom  was  referred  the  recommendations  rela- 
tive  to  our  educational  work,  also  the  proposition  made  by  the 
Paris,  Illinois,  Commercial  Club,  looking  toward  the  location  of  a 
college  in  said  town  of  Paris,  would  report  as  follows: 


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1.  That  the  recommendations  made  by  the  Committee  on  Edu¬ 
cation  concerning  Westfield  College  be  eliminated  from  the  report. 

2.  That  while  we  appreciate  the  offer  of  the  Commercial  Club 
of  Paris,  Illinois,  relative  to  the  location  of  a  college  in  said  city, 
we  cannot  consider  their  very  generous  offer  at  this  time  because 
of  the  unsettled  condition  of  our  educational  work  in  this  State. 

3.  Inasmuch  as  we  believe  that  the  United  Brethren  of  Illi¬ 

nois,  in  order  to  best  serve  the  interests  of  the  Church,  need  a  col¬ 
lege,  we  recommend  continued  loyalty  and  support  to  Westfield 
College.  j 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Pres. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Sec. 

The  above  report  was  approved. 

The  report  on  education  as  thus  amended  was  approved,  with 
the  understanding  that  two  resolutions  introduced  by  Professor 
Morgan,  Dean  of  Westfield  College,  remain  in  the  report.  Follow¬ 
ing  is  said  report. 

EDUCATION. 

An  old  subject,  long  since  threadbear  in  some  minds,  has 
been  treated  by  the  school  boy,  the  college  prep,  the  university  as¬ 
pirant,  and  the  annual  conference  dignitary ;  and  as  long  as  a  child 
on  earth  is  growing  to  maturity,  there  will  be  a  reason  for  this 
subject. 

Education,  so  little  understood,  so  misconstrued,  so  sadly*  abused, 
deserves  frequent  elucidations,  not  only  upon  conference  floors, 
but  in  every  school  room  and  around  every  fireside. 

The  word  expresses  not  a  pouring-in  process,  but  a  developing 
process. 

Let  this  fact  be  forever  fixed  in  the  mind  of  every  one  present, 
that  merely  acquiring  information  from  books  is  not  an  educa¬ 
tion.  I  hat  is  mental  gormandizing,  a  cramming  process;  and 
often  a  cramping  process,  that  leaves- a  mental  rheumatic  upon  the 
good  graces  of  a  community. 

To  educate  is  to  develop  the  powers  of  the  human  being.  Since 
such  development  cannot  possibly  be  acquired  in  a  few  months, 
time  is  a  very  important  element  in  this  development  I  have 
the  reason  for  spending  four  years  in  college — not  to  pour  into  the 
blind  four  years  of  book  lore,  but  to  develop  the  mind  in  four 
years  of  drill,  of  correction,  of  letting  go  this  error  and  acquiring 
that  truth,  of  curbing  this  habit  of  thought  and  acquiring  a  better 
habit  of  thought,  of  knocking  off  rough  corners,  of  enlarging  one’s 
vision  cf  life. 


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Since  we  all  agree  that  no  method  of  education  is  complete 
which  neglects  the  culture  of  the  heart,  we  naturally  conclude  that 
no  school  should  be  patronized  that  fosters  such  an  incomplete 
method. 

Yor  should  we  feel  safe  to  place  our  children  under  the  in¬ 
struction  of  a  teacher  who  is  not  capable  of  giving  due  attention 
to  heart  culture.  Yet  many  parents  in  our  Church  do  not  in  prac¬ 
tice  recognize  this  truth. 

We,  as  a  Church,  have  no  other  reason  to  spend  money  and  time 
with  Church  schools  than  to  add  due  attention  to  the  religious 
culture  of  our  children  along  with  other  needed  culture,  and  to 
hold  them  to  our  Church. 

If  Mr.  Smith  sends  his  children  to  he  reared  in  the  home  of  Mr. 
Jones,  the  children  will  never  be  of  any  special  service  to  the  home 
of  Mr.  Smith.  So,  if  we,  as  a  Church,  send  our  children  to  other 
schools  than  our  own,  such  children  will  not  be  useful  in  our  own 
Church. 

It  is  simply  a  case  of  educating  our  own  children  above  the 
home  high  school,  or  ceasing  operation  as  a  distinct  denomination. 
Other  churches  are  acting  upon  the  same  truth  and  have  been 
for  years.  So  have  we,  and  let  us  continue  with  increased  energy. 

The  Conference  permitted  the  following  resolutions  to  be  added 
to  the  report  on  education,  after  cutting  out  several  pages  of  said 
report. 

Resolved ,  1.  That  the  taking  of  correspondence  courses  by 

pastors  and  young  people  who  find  it  impossible  to  do  residence 
work,  be  encouraged. 

2.  That  so  far  as  possible,  fields  of  labor  be  assigned  to  young 
ministers  who  desire  to  take  work  in  the  college. 

3.  That  we  approve  the  movement  to  endow  the  Cowden  Sun¬ 
day-school  Chair  in  Bonebrake  Seminary. 

4.  That  we  condemn  the  political  and  ecclesiastical  meddlesome¬ 
ness  that  framed  the  law  which  excludes  the  Bible  from  the 
public  schools  of  this  State. 

L.  IT.  Cooley, 

Committee. 


The  three  following  reports  were  approved : 


SUPPLEMENTARY  REPORT  OF  THE.  SECOND  YEAlTs  COURSE. 


We  your  Committee  on  Second  Year’s  Course  offer  this  supple¬ 
mentary  report. 

B.  Blackburn  appeared  before  the  committee  and  made  the 
following  grades:  Encyclopedic  Handbook  of  the  Bible,  90;  Doc¬ 
trine  of  the  Prophets,  83;  Exegetical  Bible  Study,  80. 


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Brother  Blackburn  having  completed  the  second  year’s  course, 
we  recommend  that  he  be  passed  to  the  third  year. 

Respectfully, 

G.  W.  Bonebrake, 

R.  Griffin, 

J.  C.  Fowler, 

.  Committee. 


REPORT  ON  THE  SABBATH  SCHOOL. 

The  value  of  every  institution  is  seen  in  its  ability  to  advance 
and -make  progress.  After  years  of  strenuous  work  and  splendid 
achievements  the  Sabbath  school  marches  triumphantly  on.  In 
passing  judgment,  every  fair-minded  man,  even  though  critical, 
must  admit  that  the  Sabbath  school  is  doing  more  and  better  work 
than  at  any  previous  time  in  the  history  of  the  Christian  Church. 
It  has  long  been  and  still  remains  the  advance  guard  of  the 
Church,  the  hope  of  the  nation,  the  strength  of  manhood,  and  the 
foundation  of  Christian  development.  Like  some  great  forerunner 
it  is  first  on  the  ground  preparing  the  way  for  the  coming  of  the 
kingdom  of  righteousness  to  be  set  up  in  the  hearts  of  men. 

Many  of  our  churches  that  are  doing  business  for  our  King 
proudly  give  the  Sabbath  school  proper  credit  for  first  opening 
the  way  for  the  work  of  the  Master.  In  the  Sabbath  school  is  the 
*  most  splendid  opportunity  to  plant  the  seed  of  the  gospel  first  in 
the  heart.  Think  of  the  host  of  earnest  Christian  people  who  have 
been  won  through  the  influence  of  the  Sabbath  school.  When  we 
think  of  the  vastness  of  the  “ World  Wide  Men’s  Movement,”  which 
had  its  birth  in  the  Sabbath  school,  we  are  lost  in  amazement. 
We  are  made  to  sit  up  and  take  notice  at  the  way  the  “ Adult  Class 
Organization”  is  moving  on  to  victory. 

We  find  room  to  express  our  appreciation  for  the  work  of  the 
Home  Department  and  the  Cradle  Roll  ajid  earnestly  beseech 
all  pastors  to  cooperate  with  the  leaders  of  all  departments  and 
thus  reach  greater  efficiency,  knowing  the  ideal  can  only  be  reached 
and  maintained  by  the  combined  work  of  the  Church.  As  a  de¬ 
nomination,  we  readily  recognize  our  leadership  in  the  Sabbath 
school  work  as  second  to  none.  Our  literature  certainly  is  best 
yet;  and  how  a  Sunday-school  superintendent  with  a  vision,  can 
displace  it  for  that  of  any  other,  we  are  at  a  loss  to  understand. 
Surely  the  time  has  come  when  the  name  of  David  C.  Cook  ought 
not  to  be  mentioned  when  any  of  our  schools  order  supplies. 
Thanking  God  for  his  blessings  the  past  year,  and  looking  forward 
in  anticipation  for  even  greater  things,  the  coming  year,  may  we 
not,  as  pastors  and  laymen, 


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i 

Resolve ,  1.  That  we  extend  to  Dr.  H.  H.  Fout  thanks  for  his 

splendid  work  in  editing  our  literature,  and  urge  our  people  to 
adopt  the  same  in  all  our  schools. 

2.  That  we  continue  our  cooperation  with  Colonel  Cowden. 

3.  That  we  as  pastors  place  special  emphasis  upon  the  training 
of  teachers  for  better  service. 

4.  That  our  Sabbath  schools  continue  to  cooperate  with  the 
general  officers  in  every  respect. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

C.  A.  Hall. 


MINISTERIAL  AID  TREASURER'S  REPORT. 


Amount  in  treasury  at  beginning  of  year . $  480.90 

Amount  in  Burial  Fund .  40.00 

Amount  Interest  on  Notes .  249.53 

Received  from  S.  O.  Stoltz . 253.03 

Donation  from  a  friend .  50.00 

Returned  Loans .  260.00 

Publishing  House  Dividend . .  202.87 

T.  H.  Decker  on  Conference  Benevolences .  5.00 


Total  received 


$1,541,33 


Amount  Paid  Out. 


S.  Mills  for  work . $  20.00 

S.  Mills  on  mistaken  entry . ’.  .  6.00 

To  Beneficiaries . .  295.00 

Loaned  on  Note  and  Mortgage .  1,082.87 


Total 


$1,403.87 


Balance  in  treasury .  $  137.86 

Supplementary — S.  O.  Stoltz,  Conference  Trea¬ 
surer,  August  23 . .  .  209 . 17 


Total  .  $  347.03 


Respectfully, 

J.  T.  McCreery, 

Treasurer. 


The  presiding  elders  and  the  recording  secretary  were  authorized 
to  publish  the  minutes. 

Paris,  Illinois,  was  chosen  as  the  next  place  for  the  convening 
of  the  Conference. 


o  Lower  Wabash 


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Owing  to  C.  A.  Dwyer’s  election  to  the  office  of  presiding  elder, 
lie  cannot  serve  on  the  committee  to  station  presiding  elders.  T.  D. 
Spyker  was  chosen  to  said  place  on  that  committee. 

By  motion  the  presiding  elders  are  instructed  to  provide  in  the 
program  of  our  next  Ministerial  Institute  a  number  for  the  con¬ 
sideration  of  methods  of  Church  work  and  a  dealing  with  its 
finances. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  L.  E.  Miller. 


SATURDAY  AFTERNOON — FOURTH  DAY— 1 :  30  P.M. 

Devotion  was  led  by  IT.  A.  Bogard. 

The  four  following  reports  were  approved : 

REPORT  OF  TELLERS  FOR  CANDIDATES. 

The  following  is  the  result  of  the  election  for  ministerial  candi¬ 
dates  for  delegates  to  General  Conference. 


1. 

J.  T.  Me Cr eery. 

7. 

E.  M.  Pierson. 

2. 

J.  B.  Connett. 

8. 

L.  H.  Cooley. 

3. 

J.  B.  Norviel. 

9. 

W.  R.  Muncie. 

4. 

W.  L.  Duncan. 

10. 

S.  0.  Stoltz. 

O. 

G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

11. 

F.  D.  Spyker. 

6. 

C.  A.  Dwyer. 

12. 

D.  R.  Seneff. 

II.  D.  Hudson, 

O.  J.  Bogard, 

Tellers. 


SUPPLEMENTARY  REPORT  OF  THE  COMMITTEE  ON 
CONFERENCE  RELATIONS. 

We  recommend  that  Rev.  Winton  Beasly  receive  open  transfer 
as  per  his  request. 

Rev.  Mrs.  Lillie  M.  Fear  appeared  before  the  committee  hold¬ 
ing  annual  Conference  license  from  the  Holmes  Christian  Church. 
We  recommend  that  she  be  received  into  the  Conference  and  pur¬ 
sue  our  reading  courses  as  per  Discipline. 

Rev.  Mr.  Griffin  withdrew  his  request  for  transfer,  therefore,  we 
recommend  he  be  retained  in  the  Conference. 

We  recommend  that  Rev.  H.  A.  Lehwald  continue  his  relation 
as  Conference  Evangelist. 

That  Rev.  Miss  Daisy  Bowman  and  Rev.  C.  N.  Gladwell,  having 
traveled  two  years  in  the  Conference,  be  admitted  to  the  itinerant 
relation.  R.  Griffin, 

C.  A.  Hall, 

L.  E.  Miller. 


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REPORT  OF  FINANCE  COMMITTEE. 


FIELD  OF  LABOR 

P.  E.  Salary. 

Conf.  Church 

Extension. 

Bishop's  Salary. 

Preacher's  Aid 

for  Conference. 

Sunday  School 

Gen.  Fund. 

Bonebrake 

Seminary. 

Westfield 

College. 

Educational 

Beneficiary. 

Annual  Conf. 

Expense  Fund. 

General  Conf. 

Expense. 

Danville  Circuit — 

Ashmore  Circuit . 

$  54 

$  70 

$  14 

$  6 

$  5 

$  7 

$  18 

$  3 

$  6 

$  8 

50 

Broadlands . 

70 

80 

24 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

5 

50 

Charleston  Mis . 

22 

15 

4 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

Chesterville  Circuit . 

42 

45 

10 

4 

3 

5 

25 

2 

5 

1 

50 

Danville  Station . 

62 

75 

18 

6 

4 

8 

20 

3 

6 

2 

00 

Danville  Circuit . 

82 

82 

20 

7 

4 

8 

25 

3 

7 

2 

50 

Danville,  Perrvsville  Ave . 

22 

15 

3 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

Findlay  Mission . 

52 

45 

10 

4 

3 

5 

16 

2 

5 

5 

00 

Fisher  Circuit . 

60 

75 

18 

6 

4 

7 

22 

3 

6 

5 

50 

Galton  Circuit . 

64 

60 

12 

6 

4 

6 

13 

3 

5 

2 

00 

Locust  Grove  Station . 

64 

75 

18 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

8 

50 

Oakwood  Circuit . 

74 

80 

20 

10 

6 

10 

30 

4 

i 

16 

00 

Potomac  Circuit . 

76 

90 

22 

8 

5 

9 

18 

3 

7 

5 

00 

Penfield  Circuit . 

60 

67 

16 

6 

4 

6 

15 

2 

6 

10 

00 

Redmon  Circuit . 

82 

90 

22 

8 

5 

8 

25 

3 

7 

5 

00 

Rossville  Circuit . 

76 

82 

20 

8 

4 

8 

30 

3 

6 

8 

00 

White  Heath . 

58 

67 

18 

8 

6 

9 

20 

4 

8 

13 

50 

K 

'Id 

Olney  District — 

Birds  Circuit . 

60 

67 

18 

6 

4 

7 

20 

4 

6 

11 

00 

Bluford  Circuit . 

70 

82 

21 

8 

5 

7 

30 

2 

7 

11 

50 

Delhi  Mission  Station . 

25 

20 

4 

1 

1 

2 

5 

1 

2 

1 

50 

East  St.  Louis . 

20 

20 

3 

1 

1 

1 

4 

1 

2 

Flora  Circuit . 

55 

60 

12 

5 

3 

5 

18 

2 

4 

5 

00 

Flora  Mission  Station . 

30 

30 

8 

3 

2 

3 

12 

1 

3 

1 

50 

Lawrenceville  Mission . 

45 

45 

10 

4 

3 

5 

15 

2 

5 

1 

50 

Mt.  Vernon  Mission  Station . 

38 

45 

6 

6 

3 

5 

12 

2 

5 

1 

00 

New  Hebron  Circuit . 

76 

90 

22 

8 

5 

8 

35 

3 

7 

2 

50 

Olney  Station . 

70 

75 

20 

7 

4 

8 

32 

3 

6 

2 

50 

Olney  Circuit . 

76 

90 

24 

8 

5 

8 

24 

3 

7 

14 

50 

Parkersburg  Circuit . 

80 

90 

24 

9 

5 

9 

25 

4 

7 

4 

50 

Robinson  Station . 

65 

72 

18 

6 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

2 

50 

Sumner  Circuit . 

80 

90 

24 

8 

5 

8 

35 

4 

7 

2 

50 

St.  Francisville . 

78 

90 

24 

9 

6 

9 

35 

4 

8 

2 

50 

Vienna  Circuit . 

35 

45 

12 

4 

3 

5 

20 

2 

5 

6 

00 

Vergennes  Circuit . 

60 

60 

14 

5 

4 

6 

24 

2 

6 

8 

00 

West  Salem  Circuit . 

70 

82 

20 

7 

5 

8 

25 

3 

7 

2 

50 

Woodlawn  Mission  Station . 

25 

20 

6 

'  1 

1 

•  2 

15 

1 

2 

1 

50 

Westfield  District —  ^  ^ 

i  t 

Avena  Circuit . 

42 

51 

14 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

.  1 

50 

Beecher  City  Circuit . 

42 

51 

12 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

5 

50 

Casey  Station . 

.  70 

90 

24 

8 

5 

9 

25 

3 

7 

7 

50 

Casey  Circuit . 

76 

82 

22 

7 

4 

9 

20 

3 

6 

3 

50 

Clarksburg  Circuit . 

48 

57 

16 

5 

3 

6 

15 

2 

5 

8 

50 

Greenup  Circuit . 

36 

45 

12 

4 

3 

5 

8 

2 

5 

1 

00 

Island  Grove  Circuit . 

42 

51 

14 

4 

3 

6 

18 

2 

5 

9 

00 

Johnstown  Circuit . 

36 

40 

12 

4 

2 

5 

8 

1 

4 

7 

00 

Loogootee  Circuit . 

64 

75 

20 

7 

4 

7 

18 

3 

6 

11 

50 

Martinsville  Circuit . 

82 

90 

26 

8 

5 

8 

25 

3 

6 

18 

00 

Marshall  Station . 

34 

38 

10 

3 

2 

5 

10 

1 

4 

1 

00 

Oblong  Station . 

50 

60 

14 

5 

4 

6 

25 

2 

6 

9 

50 

Paris  Station . 

70 

75 

18 

7 

4 

7 

25 

3 

6 

2 

50 

Toledo  Mission . 

60 

72 

20 

6 

4 

7 

15 

3 

6 

6 

50 

Vermilion  Circuit . 

62 

67 

16 

6 

4 

7 

15 

2 

6 

1 

50 

Westfield  Station . 

82 

90 

22 

8 

5 

9 

35 

4 

7 

1 

50 

Westfield  Circuit . 

60 

80 

16 

5 

3 

6 

35 

2 

5 

9 

50 

Yale  Circuit .  . . 

80 

90 

23 

8 

5 

9 

30 

3 

7 

14 

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APPROPRIATIONS. 

Danville  . 

Lawrenceville . 

Marshall  . 

Toledo  . 

Findlay  . 

Mt.  Vernon . 

Flora  . 

Perry sville  Avenue . 

Woodlawn . 

Charleston  . 

East  St.  Louis,  by  Y.  P.  C.  E . 

Delhi  . 


. $  300.00 

.  300.00 

.  300.00 

.  250.00 

.  200.00 

.  500.00 

.  275.00 

.  175.00 

.  150.00 

.  400.00 

...............  050 . 00 

.  50.00 

Respectfully, 

T.  D.  Spyker, 

Secretary  Committee. 


REPORT  ON  THE  NEW  DANVILLE  MISSION. 

We  recommend:  1.  That  the  pastors  of  the  Danville  First 
Church,  Danville  Perrysville  Ave.,  Danville  Circuit,  and  Oakwood 
Cirquit,  with  our  laymen  from  each  of  these  fields,  constitute  a 
committee  to  look  forward  to  the  purchase  of  a  lot  and  open  a 
Sunday  school  in  East  Danville. 

2.  That  the  presiding  elder  be  chairman  of  this  committee,  as 
follows : 

1.  Presiding  elder  of  Danville  District. 

2.  Pastor  First  United  Brethren  Church,  Danville. 

3.  John  Starns. 

4.  Pastor  Perrysville  Ave.  United  Brethren  Church,  Danville. 

5.  S.  J.  White. 

6.  Pastor  Danville  Circuit,  United  Brethren  Church. 

7.  R.  C.  Langley. 

8.  Pastor  Oakwood  Circuit,  United  Brethren  Church. 

9.  Charles  Holden. 

While  we  remember  with  pleasure  the  past  association  with  our 
brother,  W.  C.  Adams,  and  are  sincerely  interested  in  our  Frontier 
Mission,  in  view  of  our  extensive  burdens  in  Mt.  Vernon,  East  St. 
Louis,  and  Charleston,  we  cannot  consistently  consent  to '  the 
canvass  of  our  territory  for  the  $500  for  a  Lower  Wabash  Memorial 
Church  at  the  present  time. 

Respectfully, 

Boundary  and  Finance  Committee. 

The  chairman  was  instructed  to  appoint  a  Committee  on 
Memoirs  for  next  year,  who  shall  secure  a  speaker  in  ample  time. 


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in  case  of  need,  so  as  to  be  prepared  for  memorial  services.  S.  O. 
Stolt-z,  B.  B.  Phelps,  C.  A.  Hall  were  made  such  a  committee. 

At  this  time  a  little  three-year-old  girl,  Ella  Gibson,  was  brought 
forward  and  sweetly  sang  a  song. 

A  conference  upon  how  to  aid  the  laity  in  meeting  the  finances 
of  the  Church  the  coming  year,  brought  out  some  helpful  sug¬ 
gestions. 

Then  W.  L.  Bunger  gave  us  valuable  suggestions  on  a  Conference 
Brotherhood.  The  Conference  then  decided  to  organize  a  Confer¬ 
ence  Brotherhood. 

For  a  committee  on  such  organization,  the  chairman  appointed 
C.  E.  Bigelow,  president;  Everett  E.  Johnson,  secretary;  G.  W. 
Bonebrake. 

Mrs.  Carrie  Blakney  then  delighted  the  Conference  with  a  song. 

The  following  report  was  approved. 

REPORT  OF  COMMITTEE  ON  RESOLUTIONS. 

1.  The  Church.  We  rejoice  because  God  sent  his  Son  to  estab¬ 
lish  a  Church  on  earth;  also  counting  man,  who  is  so  depraved, 
finite  and  fallible,  wortfiy  of  a  place  in  it. 

But  when  we  note  the  marked  contrast  between  the  rapidity  of 
the  Church,  the  commercial  and  political  wTorld,  we  stand  in  awe 
and  amazement.  We  are  living  in  a  great  age ;  men  travel  by  steam 
and  talk  by  lightning.  The  commercial  and  political  world  are 
in  a  hurrah,  while  the  Church  is  leisurely  plodding  along. 

Resolved,  That  we  as  Christians,  rally  our  forces,  equip  ourselves 
for  service,  go  out  upon  the  battlefield  standing  four  square  for 
truth  and  righteousness,  and  against  the  prevalent  sin  of  the  age, 
and  let  us  who  are  ministers  of  Christ’s  gospel,  try  to  lead  our 
people  up  to  Christ’s  standard  of  being  and  doing,  living  to  honor 
.  Christ,  and  giving  to  magnify  his  Church. 

2.  Missions.  As  we  lift  up  our  eyes  and  look  on  the  field,  we 
see  it  is  ready  for  the  sickle;  the  Macedonian  cry  is  heard  in  the 
bounds  of  our  Conference,  on  the  frontier  and  in  the  foreign 
field.  What  shall  we  do?  The  people  have  the  money  to  save  the 
nations  of  the  world,  if  they  would  but  apply  it.  There  are  mul¬ 
tiplied  millions  of  dollars  not  in  circulation,  just  as  there  is  provi¬ 
sion  enough  in  cold  storage  to  feed  the  teeming  millions  of  hungry 
stomachs,  but  cannot  be  reached.  So  the  teeming  billions  of  dol¬ 
lars  of  money  are  barrelled  up  in  banks,  in  trust  companies,  and 
corporations  while  men  and  women  by  multiplied  thousands  are 
starving  for  the  lack  of  spiritual  bread.  Who  is  to  blame? 


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First.  The  parents  in  the  training  of  their  children. 

Second.  The  Church,  in  the  education  of  her  membership. 

Resolved That  every  minister  give  the  tenth  of  his  gross  annual 
income  to  the  Lord  and  try  to  lead  every  member  of  his  charge  to 
practicing  the  same;  also  preaching  against  ice  cream  and  oyster 
suppers,  bazaars,  rummage  sales,  and  operatic  plays  for  the  raising 
of  money  to  carry  on  God’s  work;  for  the  Church  that  practices 
these  things  fails  to  meet  the  great  purpose  of  God. 

3.  The  Ministry.  Jesus  sought  clean  men  for  his  ambassadors; 
therefore,  he  said,  Tarry  at  Jerusalem,  Peter,  until  you  have  re¬ 
ceived  the  Holy  Spirit  to  keep  you  from  lying  and  swearing,  and 
you  also,  Thomas,  to  help  you  to  believe  on  me,  and  the  rest  of 
you  folks,  that  the  salt  may  not  lose  its  savor,  nor  the  lower 
lights  cease  burning. 

Resolved ,  That  we,  as  ministers  of  Lower  Wabash  Conference, 
be  clean  men,  assimilating  the  character  of  the  Christ,  that  we  may 
be  living  epistles,  read  and  known  of  all  men. 

That  we  may  be  men  of  faith;  faith  in  God,  our  fellowmen,  and 
ourselves.  Faith  in  God  will  help  us  to  go  where  God  wants  us  to 
go.  Faith  in  our  brethren  and  ourselves  will  help  us  to  stay  un¬ 
complainingly,  where  the  Conference  sends  us. 

4.  Westfield  College.  When  we  stop  to  consider  the  age  in 
which  we  live,  with  sin  so  prevalent,  and  people  traveling  with  such 
rapidity  they  hardly  have  time  to  stop  to  think,  and  our  State 
educational  institutions  that  do  not  care  a  continental  for  the 
morals  of  the  young  man  or  lady,  and  the  law  of  the  State  puts 
the  Bible  out  of  the  school,  and  many  of  the  teachers  teaching 
our  children  that  much  of  the  Bible  is  fiction,  that  Daniel  never 
went  into  the  den  of  lions,  that  the  Hebrew  boys  did  not  go 
through  the  fiery  furnace,  and  that  Jonas  did  not  go  into  the  belly 
of  the  whale,  it  seems  to  me  it  is  high  time  for  the  Church  to 
awake  and  consider  that  every  State  needs  a  Church  school  where 
the  young  people  can  obtain  some  soul  food  as  well  as  intellectual 
training.  For  as  one  has  well  said,  we  are  here  to  make  a  life,  not 
simply  a  living. 

Life  is  worth  more  than  dollars  and  cents,  than  food  and  rai¬ 
ment,  than  pleasure  and  amusement. 

Resolved ,  That  we,  the  people  of  the  United  Brethren  Church 
of  the  State  of  Illinois,  make  Westfield  College  where  it  now 
stands  a  magnetic  factor  to  draw  the  young  people  throughout  the 
State  to  it,  or  lift  it  up  and  set  it  down  where  it  will  draw. 

5.  Moral  Reform.  We  deplore  the  growing  tendency  to  dese¬ 
crate  the  Sabbath  by  visiting,  lounging  around  home,  reading  the 
Sunday  paper,  or  spending  the  time  on  the  baseball  grounds,  the 
Sunday  excursion,  the  city  park,  or  fishing  and  hunting. 

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Resolved ,  That  we,  as  Christians,  pray  over  these  things  until 
we  are  convinced  they  are  wrong,  and  then  stop  practicing  them 
if  we  want  to  shnn  hell. 

6.  Tobacco.  It  seems  to  me  that  we  as  a  Church,  are  in  some 
things,  inconsistent ;  if  we  were  to  see  one  of  our  ministers  stagger¬ 
ing  under  the  influence  of  rum,  we  would  raise  a  howl  about  it, 
and  arrest  his  character  at  the  next  quarterly  conference;  or  if  we 
were  to  see  him  walking  down  the  street  with  some  other  man’s 
wife  or  daughter,  it  would  be  a  sweet  morsel  under  everybody’s 
tongue;  but  if  we  know  he  uses  tobacco,  spending  from  $15  to  $30, 
a  year  for  it,  and  perhaps  $10  a  year  to  Christ’s  cause,  and  spitting 
on  his  wife’s  stove,  and  once  in  a  while  spitting  on  some  other 
lady’s  stove,  until  she  cannot  with  good  grace  sit  and  listen  to 
him  preach  a  sermon,  we  pay  no  attention  to  it,  and  yet  every 
minister  coming  into  the  Conference  agrees  to  abstain  from  the 
use  of  the  til  thy  stuff. 

If  that  is  consistency,  my  name  is  Dennis. 

Resolved ,  That  we,  as  a  Conference,  forbid  any  one  who  uses 
it  (tobacco)  in  any  form,  acting  on  a  committee  examining  licen¬ 
tiates  for  the  ministry. 

7.  Temperance.  It  will  be  remembered  that  something  over  one 
hundred  years  ago,  William  Carey  asked  his  famous  question, 
whether  the  Church  of  Christ  was  doing  all  it  ought  for  the  con¬ 
version  of  the  heathen.  It  will  also  be  remembered  that  Godly 
and  venerable  men  received  the  suggestion  with  great  indignation, 
and  demanded  that  Mr.  Carey  “sit  down.” 

Nevertheless  we  now  see  not  only  that  the  suggestion  was  true, 
but  that  it  very  much  needed  to  be  made.  Our  only  wonder  is  that 
any  one  should  have  had  occasion  to  make  it  to  a  Church  which, 
had  in  its  hands  the  New  Testament. 

It  is  the  story  of  the  ages,  Christianity  is  an  infallible  revelation, 
but  it  is  not  committed  to  an  infallible  Church. 

Therefore  let  us  apply  Carey’s  question  now  to  the  subject  of 
temperance,  and  ask :  “Is  the  Church  of  Christ  doing  all  it  ought 
for  the  suppression  of  intemperance?”  It  must  certainly  be  ad¬ 
mitted  that  if  the  Church  is  not  doing  all  it  can,  it  is  not  doing 
all  it  ought. 

I  believe  all  thoughtful  men  must  concede  on  calm  reflection 
that  the  Church  has  not  done  and  is  not  doing  for  the  suppression 
of  intemperance  all  it  can.  In  fact,  so  far  from  having  reached  the 
boundaries  of  possibilities,  the  Church  has  scarcely  yet  aroused' 
and  shaken  herself  for  the  mighty  conflict. 

One  eminent  minister,  when  asked  if  he  preached  on  temper¬ 
ance,  replied,  not  specifically,  “I  preach  against  all  sin.”  The  sin 
is  specific,  the  temptation  is  specific,  the  guilded  saloon  is  specific. 


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the  drunkard’s  grave  is  specific,  therefore  we  ought  to  aim  direct 
at  the  fountain  head.  If  we  go  shooting  promiscuously  over  the 
field  we  are  likely  to  hit  everything  but  the  right  thing.  Here 
is  intemperance  sailing  down  upon  us,  plundering  $2,000,000,000 
a  year  from  the  people,  and  leaving  in  its  path  200,000  dead,  the 
blighted  forms  of  millions  of  living,  and  numberless  ruined  homes 
and  broken  hearts.  In  such  a  state  of  things  is  it  wise  to  gener¬ 
alize  ?  or  should  we  not  be  specific  ? 

Resolved ,  Therefore,  that  we,  as  servants  of  Christ,  “pray  against, 
preach  against,  vote  against,  and  live  against  the  very  thing  itself.” 

9.  Thanks.  Resolved That  we  tender  our  most  sincere  thanks 
to  Rev.  O.  J.  Bogard,  the  pastor,  and  the  people  of  the  United 
Brethren  Church  as  well  as  all  the  people  of  St.  Francisville,  who 
have  thrown  their  doors  open,  so  kindly  received,  and  hospitably 
entertained  us.  Also  our  beloved  Bishop  for  his  inspiring  and 
helpful  addresses,  and  the  very  earnest  manner  in  which  he  pre¬ 
sided  over  the  Conference. 

To  the  general  officers  for  their  presence  and  helpful  talks.  To 
the  pastor  and  good  people  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  Church  who 
opened  their  church  to  us  for  committee  work. 

Respectfully  submitted, 

E.  M.  PlERSOX. 

By  motion,  the  Conference  decided  to  endorse  the  effort  to  organ¬ 
ize  a  Conference  orchestra. 

By  motion,  the  chairman  appointed  the  presiding  elder  of  Olney 
District  as  fraternal  delegate  to  the  Southern  Illinois  Conference 
of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church;  and  the  presiding  elder  of 
Danville  District  as  fraternal  delegate  to  the  Northern  Illinois 
Conference  of  the  Methodist  Protestant  Church. 

The  Statistical  Committee  presented  a  synoptical  report  of  the 
Conference  chart.  Such  committee  for  next  year  is  F.  H.  King,  C. 
O.  Myers,  L.  E.  Miller. 

By  motion,  the  Conference  business  session  will  close  after  serv¬ 
ices  to-morrow  night. 

Dy  motion,  the  Conference  decided  to  cooperate  in  the  endow¬ 
ment  of  the  Cowden  Sunday-school  Chair  in  Bonebrake  Seminary. 

The  names  of  Miss  Elizabeth  Thompson,  W.  L.  Perkins,  W.  O. 
Albert,  Mrs.  Ona  Albert,  and  P.  B.  Blakeney  are  referred  to  the 
respectful  consideration  of  the  Board  of  Education  as  eligible 
for  aid  from  the  Beneficiary  Funds. 

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F.  H.  King,  Everett  E.  Johnson,  C.  C.  Rose,  L.  E.  Miller,  and  J. 

C.  Fowler  were  made  the  committee  on  the  Cowden  Memorial  Fund. 

In  reply  to  the  message  sent  by  the  secretary  to  Honorable  S.  M. 
Cullom  concerning  the  Kenyon -Shephard  bill,  the  following  is 
at  hand. 

Washington,  D.  C.,  August  26,  1912. 

L.  H.  Cooley ,  Esq., 

St.  Francisville ,  Illinois. 

My  Dear  Sir:  Your  favor  of  the  24th  instant,  as  secretary  of 
the  Lower  Wabash  Conference  of  the  Church  of  the  United  Breth¬ 
ren  in  Christ,  favoring  the  passage  of  the  so-called  Kenyon  inter¬ 
state  liquor  bill,  has  been  received. 

This  bill  will  hardly  come  up  for  disposition  until  the  next  ses 
sion  of  Congress,  which  I  shall  be  very  glad  to  give  it  careful  con¬ 
sideration.  S.  M.  Cullom. 

The  licentiates  are  directed  in  examinations  to  the  following 
division  of  labor  by  the  Reading  Course  Committees,  the  Third 
Year's  Course  Committee  failing  to  report. 

FIRST  YEAR. 

W.  R.  Muncie,  Olnev,  Illinois. — Encyclopedic  Handbook  of  the 
Bible,  Extemporaneous  Preaching. 

J.  B.  Connett,  Olney,  Illinois. — The  Foreign  Missionary,  Mak¬ 
ing  of  a  Sermon. 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Westfield,  Illinois. — United  Brethren  Church 
History. 

D.  R.  Seneff,  Chairman. 

SECOND  YEAR. 

D.  C.  Ade,  Parkersburg,  Illinois. — Encyclopedic  Handbook  of 
the  Bible.  The  Preacher. 

L.  H.  Cooley,  312  South  17th  Street,  Mt.  Vernon,  Illinois.— 
Doctrine  of  the  Prophets. 

E.  E.  Bundy. — United  Brethren  Church  History,  Exegetical 
Studies,  Galatians,  I.  and  II.  Timothy,  and  Titus. 

E.  E.  Bundy,  Chairman 

FOURTH  YEAR. 

J.  T.  McCreery,  Danville,  Illinois. — Steven’s  Theology. 

K.  E.  Royer,  Chesterville,  Illinois. — Pedagogical  Bible  School, 
Ethics. 

T.  D.  Spyker,  Potomac,  Illinois. — The  Christian  Faith,  Apolo¬ 
getics. 


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T.  D.  Spyker,  Chairman. 


Conference  Proceedings 


The  Conference  Brotherhood  organization  resulted  as  follows: 

1.  The  adoption  of  the  constitution  suggested  by  the  Board  of 
Control. 

2.  The  election  of  H.  G.  Taylor,  president,  Olney,  Illinois; 
C.  E.  Bigelow,  secretary,  Westfield,  Illinois;  B.  C.  Langley,  treas¬ 
urer,  Danville,  Illinois. 

The  minutes  were  approved. 

Adjourned.  Benediction  by  S.  Mills.  4 


SUNDAY  SERVICES. 

Consisted  of  ordination  of  O.  J.  Bogard,  H.  A.  Bogard,  and 
F.  H.  King.  Then  the  Bishop  preached  a  most  excellent  sermon  at 
11 :00  a.m. 

Memorial  services  were  conducted  at  2 :  30  p.m.,  J.  B.  Connett 
giving  the  address. 

Bev.  T.  D.  Spyker  preached  well  at  night. 

The  Conference  year  then  closed  with  communion  services. 

REPORT  OF  STATIONING  COMMITTEE. 

Olney  District. — W.  L.  Duncan,  Presiding  Elder. 

Birds — G.  W.  Padrick. 

Bluford — B.  B.  Phelps. 

East  St.  Louis — P.  F.  Kettring. 

Flora — I.  S.  Mclver. 

Flora  Circuit — T.  H.  Decker. 

Lawrenceville — J.  C.  Fowler. 

Mt.  Vernon — L.  H.  Cooley. 

New  Hebron — J.  L.  Pellum. 

Olney — J.  B.  Connett. 

Olney  Circuit — W.  B.  Muncie. 

Parkersburg — D.  C.  Ade. 

Bobinson — H.  M.  Tipsword. 

Sumner — H.  D.  Hudson. 

St.  Francisville — O.  J.  Bogard. 

Vienna — B.  Horn  and  C.  Bradley. 

Vergennes — G.  W.  Beid. 

West  Salem — W.  C.  Harbert. 

Woodlawn — To  be  supplied. 

Delhi — I.  B.  Fisher. 

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Westfield  District. — J.  B.  Norviel,  Presiding  Elder. 

Avena — J.  E.  Sybert. 

Beecher  City — Fred  A.  Boberts. 

Casey — G.  W.  Bonebrake. 

Casey  Circuit — H.  S.  Beese. 

Clarksburg — W.  L.  Fear. 

Greenup — L.  M.  Cooper. 

Island  Grove — L.  C.  Maple. 

Johnstown — Bobert  Webber. 

Loogootee — J.  E.  Spencer. 

Martinsville — FI.  A.  Bogard. 

Marshall — E.  M.  Pierson. 

Oblong — Curtis  Williams. 

Paris — E.  H.  King. 

Toledo— L.  E.  Miller. 

Vermilion — B.  C.  Peters. 

Westfield — J.  G.  Breden. 

Westfield  Circuit — Arthur  Beldon. 

Yale— G.  W.  Ball. 

Danville  District. — C.  A.  Dwyer,  Presiding  Elder. 

Ashmore — W.  M.  Me  Comas. 

Broadlands — C.  A.  Hall. 

Chesterville — N.  E.  Boyer. 

Charleston — Everett  E.  Johnson. 

Danville,  Eirst — J.  T.  McCreerv. 

Danville,  Perrysville  Avenue — Sarah  D.  Bowman. 
Danville  Circuit — S.  O.  Stoltz. 

Findlay — B.  N.  Sypolt. 

Fisher — M.  L.  Watson. 

Galton — C.  K.  Gladwell. 

Locust  Grove — J.  F.  Fowler. 

Oakwood — E.  E.  Bundy. 

Potomac — T.  D.  Spyker. 

Penfield — H.  W.  Broadstone. 

Bedmon — W.  L.  Blackwell. 

Bossville — B.  Griffin. 

White  Heath — C.  O.  Myers. 

W.  L.  Perkins,  W.  O.  Albert,  Ona  Albert,  and  Elizabeth  Thomp 
son,  students  in  Bonebrake  Theological  Seminary. 

H.  A.  Lehwald,  evangelist  at  large. 


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INDEX 


Addresses,  Bishop  Mathews,  on — 

Christian  Education . 

Happy  Ministry,  A . 

Winning  Church,  The . 

Admitted  to — 

Advisory  Seats . . 

Itineracy  . 

Appropriations  . 

Auditing  Committee . 

Bar  of  Conference . 

Benevolences,  when  collect . 

Bonebrake  Seminary . 

Candidates  for — 

Educational  Beneficiary  Aid . '. . 

Lay  Delegates  to  General  Conference . 

Ministerial  Delegates  to  General  Conference 
Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .... 
Church  LTnion . 

Chorister  . ' . 

* 

Committees  of  Organization  Announced . 

Committees,  Special- 

Committee  of  Nine . 

Conference  Brotherhood . 

Committees  on  Church  Departments — 

Christian  Stewardship . 

Courses  of  Reading . 

Church  Erection  Board  of  Directors . 

Foreign  Missions . 

Home  Missions . 

Sunday  School  Board  of  Control . 

Committees.  Standing,  for  Next  Year — 

Memoirs . 

Statistical  . 

Cowden  Memorial  Fund . 

Conference  Business  Session  Closed . 

Conference  Orchestra . 

Conference  Proceedings . 

Conference  Record . 

Cowden  S.  S.  Chair . 

Deficits,  Referred . 

Delegates,  Fraternal . 

Discussion,  Informal . 


38 

44 
19 

18 

58 
68 

59 
17 
41 

45 


55 

61 

56 
19 
33 


20 


35 

69 

2 

3 

3 

3 

2 

3 

3,  68 

72 

73 
72 
72 

19-75 

7 

72 

44 

72 

44 


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76 


Conference  P ro cee din g s 


Election — 

Conference  Treasurer,  Next  Year .  58 

Presiding  Elders . 46,  61 

Presiding  Elders'  Stationing  Committee .  60 

Recording  Secretary .  58 

Statistical  Secretary .  58 

Trustees — 

Westfield  College . 58,  59 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  58 

Evangelist's  Report . .  20 

Exchange  of  Offices .  66 

Examination  of  Licentiates .  18 

Final  Adjournment .  72 

Fraternal  Delegates  to — 

‘  The  Branch  W.  M.  A .  61 

M.  P.  Church . ’ .  72 

Greetings  from — 

The  Branch  W.  M.  A .  61 

The  M.  P.  Church .  43 

Inactive  List .  19 

Instructions  to — 

Chairmen,  Reading  Committees .  73 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association  Trustees .  33 

Licentiates  .  73 

Ministerial  Institute .  66 

Pastors  .  44 

Recording  Secretary . 19,  45,  54,  59,  65 

Statistical  Committee .  59 

Introduced  to  Conference .  18 

Itinerant  List  Corrected .  46 

Landis,  Jv  P-,  Communication .  19 

Letters  of  Absentees .  18 

Letter  of  Sympathy .  19 

Letter  of  Inquiry  to  Olivet  College .  19 

Letter  from  Olivet  College . „ .  59 

Memorial  Services .  74 

Metropolis  Parsonage .  33 

New  Danville  Mission .  38 

New  Hope  Church  to  Sell .  43 

Necrology  .  4 

Night  Services .  18 

Notes  .  18 

Nominating  Committee .  45 

Officers  of — - 

Conference  .  2 

Beneficiary  Aid . .  2 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U .  2 

W.  M.  A .  3 

Organization  Committees  Announced .  20 

Organization  of  Conference  Brotherhood .  74 

Orders  of  the  Day .  43 

Place  of  Next  Meeting . 65 


Conference  Proceedings 


Pastors’  Reports . 

Presiding  Eiders'  Reports — 

Danville  District . 

Olney  District . 

Westfield  District . 

Preachers’  Aid . 

Presiding  Elders’  Stationing  Committee. 

Press  Reporter . 

Publishing  Minutes . 

Reference  to — 

Committee  on  Conference  Relations 

Committee  of  Nine . 

Boundary  and  Finance  Committee.  . 
Reports  of  Committees  on — 

Auditing  Accounts . 

Bible  Cause . 

Boundaries  . 

Christian  Stewardship . 

Christian  Home . 

Church  Erection . 

Committee  of  Nine . 

Conference  Relations.  .  . . 

Education  . 

Elders’  Orders . 

Finance  . 

Foreign  Missions ., . 

Home  Missions . 

Memoirs . 

New  Danville  Mission . 

Nominations  . 

Publishing  Interests . 

Resolutions  . 

Sabbath  Schools . 

Temperance  . 

Y.  P.  C.  E.  U . 

Reading  Courses — 

First  Yrear . 

Second  Year . 

Third  Year . 

Fourth  Year . 

Resignations  of — 

Westfield  College  Trustee . 

Presiding  Elders . 

Resolutions  on — - 

Church  Union . 

Pastors’  Reports . 

Roll  of  Members- — 

Active  Itinerants . 

Superannuated  Itinerants . 

Supernumerary  Itinerants . 

Local  Preachers . 

Lay  Delegates . 


43 


.  20 

.  25 

.  31 

.  46 

.  60 

.  19 

.  65 

20,  46,  59 

.  35 

.  45 

.  59 

.  .  .  .  .  52 

.  46 

.  36 

.  39 

.  33 

_ _  61 

.  44 

.  .  .  .62,  63 

.  61 

.  67 

.  48 

.  50 

.  45 

.  68 

.  45 

.  42 

.  69 

.  64 

.  53 

.  47 


38 

39 
55 
60 

59 

61 

43 

59 


5 

5 

6 
7 


78 


Conference  Proceedings 


Solos .  60 

Stationing  Committee's  Report .  74 

Statistical  Committee  Elected .  72 

Subscription  to  Charleston  and  Mt.  Vernon  Churches .  59 

Summary  of  Statistics . .  17 

Sunday  Services .  74 

Supplementary  Reports  on — 

Committee  on  Conference  Relations. .  66 

Second  Year's  Course .  63 

Fourth  Year's  Course .  60 

Transfers  Returned . 43,  46 

Treasurer’s  Reports — 

Preachers'  Aid . 65 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  56 

Conference  .  57 

Tellers  Appointed  for — 

Committee  to  Station  Presiding  Elders .  55 

General  Conference  Delegates .  61 

Officers  of  Conference .  58 

Tellers’  Reports — 

For  Conference  Officers .  61 

Ministerial  Candidates  as  Delegates  to  General  Conference .  66 

Presiding  Elder  Stationing  Committee .  60 

Trustees — 

Westfield  College .  2 

Branch  Church  Erection  Board .  58 

Church  and  Parsonage  Building  Association .  58 


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